(wat uiteraard telenetters niet mag weerhouden om ook deel te nemen met dit project als ze nog toestellen hebben waar een USB poort op zit, en die continue online zijn zoals routers of NAS apparaten).
With your help, the RIPE NCC is building the largest Internet measurement network ever made. RIPE Atlas employs a global network of probes that measure Internet connectivity and reachability, providing an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time.
These probes perform ping, traceroute, DNS and SSL certificate measurements around the clock and send this data to the RIPE NCC, where it is aggregated and presented in the form of Internet maps, graphs and other results.
There are currently several thousand active probes in the RIPE Atlas network, concentrated in the RIPE NCC service region of Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia, and the network is constantly growing. The RIPE NCC collects the data from this network and provides useful maps and graphs based on the aggregated results. RIPE Atlas users who host a probe can also use the entire RIPE Atlas network to conduct customised measurements that provide valuable data about their own network(s).
The overarching goals of RIPE Atlas are:
- To provide users with an active measurement tool for baseline and on-demand individual measurements from thousands of vantage points around the Internet
- To produce Internet "traffic maps" and other data that can be used by the technical community
- To act as a trusted source of data regarding real-life, active measurements
The RIPE Atlas community is made up of users, hosts and sponsors.
Anyone who accesses RIPE Atlas maps and statistics, which are open and available to the public, is considered a RIPE Atlas user. A host is anyone who connects a probe to their home (or other) network; by doing so, hosts can conduct their own customised measurements beyond the built-in measurements the probes conduct on behalf of the RIPE NCC. A sponsor is an individual or organisation that provides financial support for a number of probes, and receives additional benefits. RIPE NCC members can also take advantage of special RIPE Atlas features, even if they do not choose to host or sponsor probes.
Data collection
RIPE Atlas probes are small hardware devices, powered by USB, that hosts attach to an Ethernet port on their router via a network (UTP) cable. They conduct different measurements and relay this data to the RIPE NCC, where it is aggregated with data from the rest of the RIPE Atlas network. The probes use a very small amount of bandwidth and cannot determine any information about the content passing to or from their host computers. Probes conduct the following types of measurements: ping, traceroute, DNS and SSLcert.
Benefits
The unique benefit of RIPE Atlas is the ability to send active measurement traffic from thousands of vantage points across the Internet and record the responses. We know of no other infrastructure with this number of vantage points operating around the clock. This functionality translates into a multitude of benefits for RIPE Atlas users, hosts, sponsors and RIPE NCC members:
- The Internet community can access RIPE Atlas data in a number of formats, including Internet maps, and use it for their own purposes. Some examples of analyses performed using RIPE Atlas data include a case study of IPv6 /48 filtering, the impact of Superstorm Sandy on Internet traffic routing, and comparing response times of DNS servers. Get the full analyses and see more results.
- RIPE Atlas hosts aren’t only helping to create the world’s largest Internet measurement network – they also earn credits they can use to conduct their own customised measurements using the entire RIPE Atlas network, which can provide valuable information about the performance of the host’s own network(s).
- RIPE Atlas sponsors enjoy additional benefits, such as earning the equivalent number of credits that each of their sponsored probes earns. With these credits, sponsors can perform even more customised measurements.
- RIPE NCC members, even if they do not host a RIPE Atlas probe, can take advantage of special features available only to them, including testing their IPv6 reachability and requesting one million credits to perform their own customised measurements. RIPE NCC members also receive privileged and early access to the pool of all collected measurements.
The RIPE NCC began development of RIPE Atlas in late 2010 as its next generation active measurement network. The pilot program built on the RIPE NCC's previous measurement network, the Test Traffic Measurement Service (TTM), which was the RIPE NCC's first foray into active measurements. (The TTM Service is now partially being transitioned into the RIPE Atlas infrastrucutre, which will be discontinued in mid-2013.) With RIPE Atlas, the RIPE NCC hopes to create the world's largest Internet measurement network. In order to achieve our aim, we rely on interested members of the Internet community - both in the RIPE NCC's service region and around the world - to host RIPE Atlas probes that relay the results of automated measurements to RIPE Atlas's central infrastructure at the RIPE NCC. By the end of 2011, more than 1,000 people hosted RIPE Atlas probes. A year later, that figure grew to more than 2,000. With your help, we hope to continue to expand the network with the ultimate goal of many thousands of probes distributed globally, providing the most detailed picture of the Internet's infrastructure ever created. Learn more about the different ways to get involved.
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