Blog
-
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.
Categories: -
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.
Categories: -
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.
Categories: -
Trends, Transformations, and Regional Dynamics of Internet Interconnection
Global peering is not contracting; it is undergoing a structural transformation.
Categories: -
Mapping the Impact of Shutdowns on Internet Exchange Points
Internet Exchange Points offer a unique vantage point for studying the impact of Internet shutdown and outage events at a country and regional level.
Categories: -
Investigating Middlebox Deployment and Characteristics in Dutch Autonomous Systems
Study reveals 4% of Dutch network paths are affected by middleboxes; nearly half are located outside the country.
Categories: -
When “Nearby” Isn’t Nearby: How Remote Peering Undermines Anycast
Remote peering has quietly disrupted the benefits of anycast and IXPs.
-
The Digital Roads to Government Services: Uncovering Consolidation and Exposure
A new study of 58 countries shows that many online government services are served and routed via foreign networks and have low HTTPS encryption adoption rates.
Categories: -
Egypt Internet Outage: Another Example of the Need to Spread Your Risk
A fire in a major Internet hub in Cairo has significantly disrupted multiple major Internet service providers (ISPs) in the country.
Categories: -
Counting IXPs and IXP Databases
Multiple directories collate information about IXPs and networks that peer at them.
Categories: -
How Can Internet Exchange Points Help Measure the Internet
IXPs' unique vantage points can provide local and regional level availability and performance insights that public international measurement projects cannot measure as accurately.
Categories: -
Establishing Sustainable Community-Driven Internet Exchange Points
Community-driven IXPs must focus on demonstrating value to ensure future stability.
Categories:












