Eugene Call for Presentations
Susan Harris
srh at merit.edu
Tue Sep 17 13:23:18 UTC 2002
Thanks Henk! We'll be back in touch in later in September, once all the
NANOG26 submissions have been received and reviewed.
Susan Harris, Ph.D.
Merit Network/Univ. of Mich.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC) wrote:
> Hi Susan,
>
> > Hi - just a reminder that abstracts are due this Monday, Sept. 16.
>
> > CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
>
> I'd like to propose the following presentation:
>
>
> New services from the RIPE NCC
> ------------------------------
>
> During the last 5 years, the RIPE NCC has been working on 2 new services
> for the entire ISP community: TTM or Test Traffic Measurements, and the
> RIS or Routing Information Service. These projects were presented at the
> Spring 1999 NANOG meeting but a large number of new features have been
> added during the last 3 years.
>
> TTM: The TTM now consists of a network of +/- 70 machines, measuring
> delay and loss between sites all over the world. Since 1999, 2 new
> measurements have been added:
>
> - IP Delay Variations a.k.a. Jitter
> - Bandwidth measurements, providing an estimate of both the
> total available bandwidth between sites as well as the
> unused bandwidth.
>
> We also would like to take this opportunity to present the new
> CDMA based version of the measurement device. CDMA is a 3rd
> generation mobile telephony standard that, as a side effect,
> produces a timing signal. This timing signal can be used to measure
> the performance of both IPv4 and IPv6 networks down to the 10
> microsecond level, anywhere when one can use a mobile phone without
> the need for an expensive and hard to install GPS system.
>
> RIS: The RIS is now collecting BGP information from 9 sites world-wide,
> with collectors in North American, Europe and Asia, with some 200
> ISP's participating by providing a BGP feed. New applications (since
> the project was presented at the Spring 1999 NANOG) of the data
> include:
>
> - Daily lists of hot-spots with the most active prefixes
> - Analysis of flaps in the routing table.
> - Detection of AS's and prefixes announced by ISP's but not properly
> registered in the whois data-base and/or not assigned to them.
> - Multi homing effects.
>
> This talk gives a short overview of the various services and how they can
> be used in daily ISP operations, using the shutdown of a major European
> backbone provider that recently went bankrupt as an example.
>
> Henk
>
>
> ps. While I hope that more people will start using these services after
> this talk, this is definitely not a sales talk.
>
>
> Comment: I can do this talk in either one of 2 ways (or both): a short
> plenary presentation (20 mins or so), showing the highlights and URL's,
> inviting people to try these at home, or a longer version (2 hours or so)
> showing people the details. The latter would be more suitable for a
> tutorial or BOF. Just let me know what you prefer.
>
>
>
>
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