PlanetLab Use by Enterprise IT

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PlanetLab Use by Enterprise IT

• Jeff Sedayao
• Intel Corporation

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PlanetLab Use by Enterprise IT

• Example uses by Intel
• Other uses we are thinking about
• Issues

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Example Uses by Intel

• Studying Internet Routing
• ISP Connectivity Monitoring
• PlanetLab sensors

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Studying Internet Routing (1)

• Question Routing effects of North American IP
  addresses used overseas?
• Methodology Use ScriptRoute to measure routing

Address Space
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Studying Internet Routing (2)

• Findings
• Suboptimal routing problems identified
• Some geographies will not route these addresses
  locally

Country A
Site 1
Country B
Site 3
Site 2 with non-local addresses
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ISP Connectivity Monitoring (1)

• Global Company needs distributed monitoring
• To identify regional issues
• Monitoring should be performed in both directions
• Inside to Outside
• Outside to Inside
• Identify the problem/issue before end user calls
• Custom monitoring at low cost is always beneficial

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ISP Connectivity Monitoring (2)

• Ping nodes from different geographic regions to
  get a broad perspective on connectivity

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ISP Connectivity Monitoring (3)
Global Console for first line support staff
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PlanetLab Sensors

• Use PlanetLab sensor interface for monitoring
  internal e-mail
• A lightweight interface for transmitting and
  gathering data in distributed systems
• Extremely easy to create tools and scripts that
  use sensors.

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Other Uses We are Thinking About

• Security monitoring
• Application monitoring
• Internal version of PlanetLab

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Issues

• Easy of use for IT personnel
• Nonstandard nature
• Security
• Support/control
• Hardware
• AUPs
• Node uptime
• Dependence on existing services

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