CAIDA skitter in New Zealand
Cheers everyone,
this is a request for help in the interest of research / community.
For the past four years the WAND network research group at the
University of Waikato has been hosting the only skitter system
in the South Pacific rim.
http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/skitter/
The system measures and displays a number of important network
properties on a global scale and tracks changes on short, medium
and long time scales.
Waikato has been the beacon on the map, making sure NZ shows up
on the radar screen of the Internet (research) community. The
problem in running a skitter system is with the amount of
traffic generated, it can easily exceed 1 GByte per day, and
with traffic charging in place, this adds up to something like
NZ$50,000 per annum for us. We have been coping with a mix of
external and internal funding, but those sources have finally
dried out. The sad result is that we had to shut down the system
last week. No backup solutions so far.
This note to you to explore if any of you have an idea on
alternative placements, preferably with no volume charging
in place at all, or, with a nominal fee. There is little
chance we can keep operating a machine here in NZ if the
amount of funding required is going to be substancial.
Thanks.
Joerg
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Joerg B. Micheel Email:
Joerg Micheel
Cheers everyone,
this is a request for help in the interest of research / community.
For the past four years the WAND network research group at the University of Waikato has been hosting the only skitter system in the South Pacific rim.
http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/skitter/
The system measures and displays a number of important network properties on a global scale and tracks changes on short, medium and long time scales.
Waikato has been the beacon on the map, making sure NZ shows up on the radar screen of the Internet (research) community. The problem in running a skitter system is with the amount of traffic generated, it can easily exceed 1 GByte per day, and with traffic charging in place, this adds up to something like NZ$50,000 per annum for us. We have been coping with a mix of external and internal funding, but those sources have finally dried out. The sad result is that we had to shut down the system last week. No backup solutions so far.
This note to you to explore if any of you have an idea on alternative placements, preferably with no volume charging in place at all, or, with a nominal fee. There is little chance we can keep operating a machine here in NZ if the amount of funding required is going to be substancial.
Surely this would be a great PR opportunity for Telecom or Telstra? Here's a chance for either (or both) to show their concrete support for network research in NZ in particular and what a nice, warm and fuzzy public-spirited organisation theirs is. -- Juha - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
Surely this would be a great PR opportunity for Telecom or Telstra? Here's a chance for either (or both) to show their concrete support for network research in NZ in particular and what a nice, warm and fuzzy public-spirited organisation theirs is.
-- Juha
How about getting IDG to do this - by turning off Bonzai Buddy on the clients they should see significant amounts of bandwidth freed up for more important tasks... :-) Seriously though, I agree with Juha. Would anyone from a carrier care to comment? Cheers, Gordon - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
On Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003, at 03:17 Canada/Eastern, Joerg Micheel wrote:
Waikato has been the beacon on the map, making sure NZ shows up on the radar screen of the Internet (research) community. The problem in running a skitter system is with the amount of traffic generated, it can easily exceed 1 GByte per day, and
What is the peak data rate into and out of each skitter probe? Joe - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
Ihug is prepared to host this equipment. Joerg, please email me privately to sort out details. Cheers, Bart At 21:17 29/01/2003, Joerg Micheel wrote:
Cheers everyone,
this is a request for help in the interest of research / community.
For the past four years the WAND network research group at the University of Waikato has been hosting the only skitter system in the South Pacific rim.
Bart Kindt Manager, Network Operations Director, The Internet Group Limited New Zealand - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog
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Bart Kindt -
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Joe Abley -
Joerg Micheel -
Juha Saarinen