Presentation given by Christian Teuschel at Cisco IoT Symposium, Paris, France on 7 March 2016.

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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