August 2015 - RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors

Welcome and tips for new RIPE Atlas ambassadors
by Vesna Manojlovic 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, Thank you very much for helping us build RIPE Atlas into the largest, most diverse Internet measurement network possible by spreading the word and distributing probes. To help make it easier for our community to meet RIPE Atlas ambassadors, we’ve created a list of the different events where ambassadors will be available to answer questions and hand out probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/get-involved/community/#!tab-conferences Please let us know if there are any events you’ll be attending, and we will add you to the list. If you want us to list your contact details, please also tell us your Twitter, GitHub or LinkedIn information. You can send these details to mcb(a)ripe.net. We’re also happy to announce that the dashboard view of the probes you've already distributed has been improved. We hope this will help you in your tasks as a RIPE Atlas ambassador, such as following up with hosts who are a bit slow to connect their probes, or those who have maybe forgotten all about connecting them! Below you can find some more tips and resources to help you as a RIPE Atlas ambassador. We look forward to meeting you soon, either in person at an event (hopefully at RIPE 69!) or online. Kind regards, Lia, Michela, Vesna Measurements Community Building team RIPE NCC Tips: You can download and print a brochure that explains what RIPE Atlas is and how people can apply for a probe: https://www-static.ripe.net/static/rnd-ui/atlas/media/apply/RIPE_Atlas_flye… You can see where we need to distribute more probes: https://atlas.ripe.net/contrib/density.html You can see how many probes are in a certain AS Number by querying RIPEstat for the AS Number and looking at the "Activity” tab: https://stat.ripe.net You can get the latest updates about RIPE Atlas on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/atlas

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Fwd: Re: Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by Daniel Karrenberg 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: 21 2015 <> X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks To: dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com References: <lxatxl6n4u6ud94e7wf2eyk6.1440476198121(a)email.android.com> From: Daniel Karrenberg <daniel.karrenberg(a)ripe.net> X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <55DC1E78.8070503(a)ripe.net> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 09:51:20 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <lxatxl6n4u6ud94e7wf2eyk6.1440476198121(a)email.android.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit My elevator pitch: Of course you have your network monitored and running well. ;-) Your customer experience however is based on the *Inter*net: They want to communicate with customers of other networks. So how is your connectivity with other networks at any point in time? RIPE Atlas provides thousands of vantage points around the Internet to look at your network and measure how well your customers are reachable from the rest of the Internet. You can set up both continuous monitoring and look at specific issues in real time. You can integrate the continuous external monitoring with your internal monitoring system. The very reasonable price is installing a few probes. If you are happy with what you get, install an anchor. Daniel On 25.08.15 6:18 , dp(a)datasoftcomnet.com wrote: > Hello all, > Can someone share an elevator pitch on why an ISP or an organisation > that is on 24/7 needs to put a probe in their network. > What are the benefits they would get? > Has someone prepared a case study. > > Regards DP > 9849111010. > > Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Emile Aben <emile.aben(a)ripe.net> > Date: 25/08/2015 09:25 (GMT+05:30) > To: Sebastian Castro <sebastian(a)nzrs.net.nz> > Cc: ripe-atlas-ambassadors(a)ripe.net > Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in > more locations and networks > > On 24/08/15 23:53, Sebastian Castro wrote: >> >> >> On 24/08/15 11:27 pm, Vesna Manojlovic wrote: >>> Dear ambassadors, >> >> Hi Vesna: >> >>> >>> You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to >>> many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! >>> There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: >>> >>> 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes >>> >>> In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" >>> the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. >>> >>> This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: >>> > https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… >>> >>> >>> Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: >>> http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt >>> >> >> Emile's work is really valuable and much appreciated. Is it possible to >> have a date of generation on that file? It seems to be the same as few >> months ago, considering we have deployed probes in the last two months >> that increase coverage. > > This was a one-off, timestamp on the file says I did that on 26 June. > I've just put a new one here: > http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas-coverage/ > >>> 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas > probes >>> >>> Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the >>> same map: >>> > https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… >>> >>> >>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes >>> >>> 3) Comparing coverage between countries >>> >>> This map shows the percentage of probes per country: >>> https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ >>> >>> Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge >>> of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the >>> best people! >> >> We have a different method, that uses address space to determine which >> ASNs are relevant to cover. >> >> The eyeball method works for ISP that serve customers, but not for those >> that provide transit. Our methodology, that picks a BGP table dump and >> calculates the ratio of /24 versus number of probes helps us to have >> more coverage and to quickly identify targets. > > Heh. We had a discussion last week in the office which boiled down to > pretty much what you describe here, as an alternative to 'eyeball' data. > I expect more in this space soon :) > > Cheers and many thanks to all our ambassadors for the great work they > are doing! > Emile > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net > https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors > > > _______________________________________________ > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list > RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net > https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors >

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Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by dp＠datasoftcomnet.com 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Hello all, Can someone share an elevator pitch on why an ISP or an organisation that is on 24/7 needs to put a probe in their network. What are the benefits they would get? Has someone prepared a case study. Regards DP 9849111010. Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any. -------- Original message -------- From: Emile Aben <emile.aben(a)ripe.net> Date: 25/08/2015 09:25 (GMT+05:30) To: Sebastian Castro <sebastian(a)nzrs.net.nz> Cc: ripe-atlas-ambassadors(a)ripe.net Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks On 24/08/15 23:53, Sebastian Castro wrote: > > > On 24/08/15 11:27 pm, Vesna Manojlovic wrote: >> Dear ambassadors, > > Hi Vesna: > >> >> You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to >> many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! >> There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: >> >> 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes >> >> In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" >> the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. >> >> This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… >> >> >> Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: >> http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt >> > > Emile's work is really valuable and much appreciated. Is it possible to > have a date of generation on that file? It seems to be the same as few > months ago, considering we have deployed probes in the last two months > that increase coverage. This was a one-off, timestamp on the file says I did that on 26 June. I've just put a new one here: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas-coverage/ >> 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas probes >> >> Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the >> same map: >> https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… >> >> >> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes >> >> 3) Comparing coverage between countries >> >> This map shows the percentage of probes per country: >> https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ >> >> Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge >> of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the >> best people! > > We have a different method, that uses address space to determine which > ASNs are relevant to cover. > > The eyeball method works for ISP that serve customers, but not for those > that provide transit. Our methodology, that picks a BGP table dump and > calculates the ratio of /24 versus number of probes helps us to have > more coverage and to quickly identify targets. Heh. We had a discussion last week in the office which boiled down to pretty much what you describe here, as an alternative to 'eyeball' data. I expect more in this space soon :) Cheers and many thanks to all our ambassadors for the great work they are doing! Emile _______________________________________________ RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors(a)ripe.net https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors

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Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks
by Vesna Manojlovic 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Dear ambassadors, You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do! There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help: 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target" the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage. This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-… Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size: http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas probes Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the same map: https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/publ… https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes 3) Comparing coverage between countries This map shows the percentage of probes per country: https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/ Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the best people! Kind regards, Vesna on behalf of the Measurements Community Building team

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RIPE Atlas News for Ambassadors
by Michela Galante 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Dear RIPE Atlas ambassadors, We’ve already convinced you about the benefits of hosting a RIPE Atlas probe, which is why you help us do the same with people all over the world. But do you ever find it difficult to explain to others all the different benefits and potential use cases of RIPE Atlas? We have a special collection of articles on RIPE Labs that do just that. They include blog posts by probe and anchor hosts about how they use RIPE Atlas data to troubleshoot network issues and monitor their services, analyses carried out by RIPE Atlas researchers, scientific papers that have been published using RIPE Atlas data, and a section for tutorials, workshops and presentations on RIPE Atlas given by people at conferences all over the world. https://labs.ripe.net/atlas/user-experiences We hope you’ll find this collection useful in helping explain RIPE Atlas and its many uses to potential probe hosts. And who knows? It might even spark an idea or two about how *you* can use RIPE Atlas data, too. We’re continually adding to the collection, so check back often for new articles. By the way, this is the first of a series of news and updates that we plan to send out to our RIPE Atlas ambassador community on a regular basis, so stay tuned. There may even be a new bonus for ambassadors that will be announced soon... And, as always, thank you for helping us build the world’s largest Internet measurement network - we couldn’t do it without you! Kind regards, Michela Galante Measurements Community Building RIPE NCC

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