RIPE Atlas presentation and use cases, ISP summit Toronto 2016

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RIPE Atlas Intro
& Use Cases

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• RIPE Atlas is a global active measurements
platform
• Probes hosted by volunteers
• Data publicly available
"RIPE Atlas: A Global Internet Measurement
Network" (PDF). Internet Protocol Journal 18.
September 2015. ISSN 1944-1134.

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RIPE Atlas numbers
•9,300+ probes connected (217+ anchors)
•3,900+ results collected per second
•35,000+ user-defined measurements weekly
- Six types of user-defined measurements available to probe
hosts and RIPE NCC members: ping, traceroute, DNS, SSL,
NTP, HTTP (WiFi coming…)

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RIPE Atlas coverage

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RIPE Atlas coverage in Canada

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RIPE Atlas probes and anchors in CA
• 235 RIPE Atlas probes
• Only four anchors in Canada

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Visualisations
• List of probes:
sortable by RTT
• Map: colour-coded by
RTT
• LatencyMON:
compare multiple
latency trends

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LatencyMON

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Why RIPE Atlas?
• Monitor the performance of your network in real
time from thousands of vantage points
• Troubleshoot problems close to your customers
• Validate your peering strategies
• Plan your content distribution
• Demonstrate performance to your customers

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View Your Network from the Outside
• Integrate “status checks” with existing
monitoring tools (such as Icinga)
• Uses real-time data streaming
- Server monitoring
- Detecting and visualising outages
- Filtering and re-using measurement results

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How RIPE Atlas has been used
• Using RIPE Atlas to Monitor Game Service
Connectivity
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/annika_wickert/using-ripe-
atlas-to-monitor-game-service-connectivity
• Using RIPE Atlas to Measure Cloud Connectivity
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/jason_read/using-ripe-atlas-
to-measure-cloud-connectivity
• Using RIPE Atlas to Debug Network Connectivity
Problems
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/
using-ripe-atlas-to-debug-network-connectivity-problems

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How RIPE Atlas has been used
• Internet Access Disruption In Turkey - July 2016
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/internet-access-
disruption-in-turkey
• Operator Level DNS Hijacking
- https://labs.ripe.net/Members/babak_farrokhi/operator-
level-dns-redirection

14. IXP Country Jedi
Canada as Seen by RIPE Atlas

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RIPE Atlas IXP Country Jedi
• Do paths between ASes stay in country?
• Any difference between IPv4 and IPv6?
• How many paths go via local IXP?
• Could adding peers improve reachability?
• Experimental tool
- Feature requests welcome!
- Depends on probe distribution in country

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Methodology
• Traceroute mesh between RIPE Atlas probes
• Identifying ASNs in country using RIPEstat
- Using a maximum of two probes per AS
• Identifying IXP and IXP LANs in PeeringDB

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Which paths go via IXPs in Canada?

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Which paths go via IXPs in Canada?
• TorIX

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RIPE Atlas IXP City Jedi
IPv4 IPv6

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Hosting a probe
• Create a RIPE NCC Access account
• Apply online and we will ship a probe to you:
- https://atlas.ripe.net/apply
• Once you receive it, register your probe:
- https://atlas.ripe.net/register
• Plug in your probe
• If you receive a probe at a conference or
training course, just register it and plug it in!

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Contact us
• Mailing list for users: ripe-atlas@ripe.net
• Articles and updates: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas
• Questions and bugs: atlas@ripe.net
• Twitter: @RIPE_Atlas and #RIPEAtlas
• GitHub: https://github.com/RIPE-Atlas-
Community
• Roadmap: https://atlas.ripe.net/docs/roadmap/

22. Questions
mcandela@ripe.net
@webrobotics