I am excited to announce the public re-launch of the Interconnection Measurement Project at the University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute (DSI). The Interconnection Measurement Project is a collaboration of academia with Charter, Comcast, Cox, and Mediacom — major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United States — that enables network insights through a unique…
Read moreBuilding on the release of the March 11 working paper, today, CITP launches the Interconnection Measurement Project. The initiative includes the launch of a project specific website and the ongoing collection, analysis, and release of capacity and utilization data measured at interconnection points for seven ISPs who collectively serve approximately half of all US broadband subscribers.
Read moreMeasuring Internet interconnection is an important area of research. Unfortunately, visibility of performance at ISP interconnection points has been extremely limited, and efforts to date to characterize interconnection have largely been indirect, relying on inferences made at network endpoints. Today, I am pleased to release analysis taken from direct measurement of Internet interconnection points, which represents advancement in this important field of research. To this end, I am releasing a working paper that includes data from seven ISPs who collectively serve approximately half of all US broadband subscribers.
Originally posted on the “Freedom to Tinker” blog
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