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Beyond the Homepage: Measuring What It Really Takes to Keep Web Traffic Local
Current measurements show US, Germany, and France host the bulk of content globally, while South Africa is serving an important regional hub for Southern African countries.
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A Case For Using Large Language Models to Automate Internet Measurement Research
A new Internet measurement system, ArachNet, uses Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate the process, reducing the time to analyse the causes and impact of disruptions.
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Common Threads: Peering into Internet Resilience
Participants at the PIMF Jamaica event identified the challenges of connecting people in the Caribbean and proposed solutions with measurable components to track the impact of their strategies.
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Demystifying RPKI-Invalid Prefixes: Hidden Causes and Real Risks
Two major causes for RPKI invalidity are opaque IP transit services and IP leasing.
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Recapping West African Internet Resilience Workshop
These discussions created a shared sense of urgency and a call to action on strengthening Internet resilience across the region and the continent at large.
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Mapping Community Responses to Cloud Security Misconfigurations
Human error-attributed misconfigurations are the leading cause of security and privacy incidents in cloud services.
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A Journey Towards Implementing Internet Resilience in Africa
The Internet Society, Africa Telecommunications Union (ATU), and African Network Information Centre have released a model framework for building and sustaining Internet resilience in Africa.
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Measuring Rural Internet Access Across Starlink
For rural Internet connectivity decisions, Starlink's value depends entirely on what alternative connectivity and locally cached content exist.
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Who Is Steering Internet Traffic? Understanding Opacity in CDN Replica Selection
The traffic steering decisions that content delivery networks choose affect latency, resilience, and sovereignty.
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Can IXPs Take the Pulse of the Internet?
A recent study of 472 IXPs shows a 49.2% increase in daily aggregate IXP traffic from January 2023 to December 2024.
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Understanding Partial Reachability
Researchers have proposed a new definition that suggests that for a network to be considered within the "Internet core," it needs to be reachable by at least 50% of the rest of the active Internet
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Blackouts and Byteouts: What happens to Internet hubs when the grid stumbles?
Understanding how much of our Internet operations is susceptible to failures in the power distribution network is critical for measuring the Internet's resilience.
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