ICFASCIC Network Monitoring

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ICFA/SCIC Network Monitoring

• Prepared by Les Cottrell, SLAC, for
• ICFA
• www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/scs/net/talk03/icfa-aug0
  4.ppt

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Coverage

• In last 9 months added
• Several sites in Russia (thanks GLORIAD)
• Many hosts in Africa (5gt36 now in 27 out of 54
  countries)
• Monitoring sites in Pakistan and Brazil (Sao
  Paolo and Rio)
• Now monitoring 650 sites in 115 countries
• Working to install monitoring host in Bangalore,
  India

Monitoring site Remote site
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World View
C. Asia, Russia, S.E. Europe, L. America, M.
East, China 4-5 yrs behind India, Africa 7 yrs
behind
S.E. Europe, Russia catching up Latin Am., Mid
East, China keeping up India, Africa falling
behind
Important for policy makers
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View from CERN

• Confirms view from N. America

From the PingER project August 2004.
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From Developing Regions
Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
NSK to Moscow used to be OK but loss went up in
Sep. 2003 GLORIAD may help
Brazil (Sao Paolo)
As expected Brazil to L. America is good Actually
dominated by Brazil to Brazil To Chile Uruguay
poor since goes via US
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Achieving throughput

• User cant achieve throughput available (Wizard
  gap)
• Big step just to know what is achievable

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Collaborations/funding

• Good news
• Active collaboration with NIIT Pakistan to
  develop network monitoring including PingER
• Travel funded by US State department for 1 year
• FNAL SLAC continue support for PingER
  management and coordination
• Bad news
• DoE funding for PingER terminated
• Proposal to EC 6th framework with ICTP, ICT
  Cambridge UK, CONAE Argentina, Usikov Inst
  Ukraine, STAC Vietnam VUB Belgium rejected
• Proposal to IDRC/Canada February, no word
• Hard to get funding for operational needs
• For quality data need constant vigilance (host
  disappear, security blocks pings, need to update
  remote host lists )

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New features in works (with NIIT)

• Improve new site set-up tools
• Improve management
• Discover non working links faster
• Improve access to data and meta data
• Provide data base with lat/long, country etc.
• Add web services access
• Improve visualization
• Provide map with drill down to node information
• Automate production of long term trend plots for
  regions
• More node selection capabilities
• Traceroute measurement and analysis