Christian Teuschel gave a presentation on RIPE Atlas, a global measurement network consisting of small probing devices that take network measurements. RIPE Atlas allows individuals and the Internet community to benchmark and monitor networks through ping and other measurements from different locations around the world. The data is securely collected and vetted to ensure quality. Teuschel also discussed upcoming workshops to help people learn how to use RIPE Atlas and access its measurement data.

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A Global Measurement
Network
RIPE Atlas

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What is RIPE Atlas?

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What is RIPE Atlas?
Data taken on 2016-03-04

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RIPE Atlas Probe Devices
• Version 1 and Version 2: Lantronix XPort Pro
- uClinux based
• Version 3 (latest): TP-Link TL-MR3020
- OpenWRT based
• RIPE Atlas Anchor: Soekris net6501-70
- Rack-mounted “super” probe based on Centos

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Active Internet Measurements
• What RIPE Atlas supports:
• What does it not do?
- Bandwidth measurements
- Emulating application traffic (for net neutrality)

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Merits of RIPE Atlas
• Value for the Internet community
- Baseline metrics for the Internet
Latency to fixed locations Instance of anycast K-root

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Merits of RIPE Atlas
• Value for individuals
- Benchmarking and monitoring of networks
Ping measurements…
…from different locations

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RIPE Atlas & Security
• Security is high priority
- Secure communication via SSH
- Hardware platform raises the bar for tampering
- Security review by external party
• Data quality
- Measurement data coming from probes is vetted
- Keeping raw data allows for flexible (re)processing of
output data

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RIPE Atlas Workshop
• Two-hour, interactive workshop
- Create measurements
- Access measurement data
- Explore the streaming API
- And more
Done by Daniel Karrenberg and
Massimo Candela

10. Questions
christian.teuschel@ripe.net
@cteuschel

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Bonus: RIPE Atlas Architecture