The Great Obama Traffic Flood
Streaming video traffic coverage of Obama’s inauguration flooded North American backbones today. Traffic increases varied wildly across US providers with some seeing an overall 5% increase in backbone...
View ArticleATLAS 2.0: Observing A Rapidly Changing Internet
It’s already been over 2 years ago since we first introduced our Active Threat Level Analysis System – ATLAS, a multiphase project that’s been evolving pretty much constantly ever since. The first...
View ArticleThe Great GoogleLapse
Web sites go down. Circuits fail. Network engineers goof router configs. And few of these outages ever make the nightly news… But if you happen to be Google and your content constitutes up to 5% of all...
View ArticleThe Internet After Dark (Part 2)
This blog completes our informal three week study of Internet daily traffic patterns. Using data from the Internet Observatory, we analyzed weekday application traffic across 110 geographically diverse...
View ArticleWho Put the IPv6 in my Internet?
About this time last year, we released a study on the state of IPv6 deployment in the Internet. Our August 2008 paper found diminishingly small traces of IPv6 — less than one hundredth of 1% of...
View ArticleHow Big is Google?
Google’s recent FTTH announcement generated a wave of media coverage and industry discussion. Responses ranged from exuberant local communities racing to sign up to anti-competitive howls from...
View ArticleGoogle Sets New Internet Traffic Record
In their earnings call last week, Google announced a record 2010 third-quarter revenue of $7.29 billion (up 23% from last year). The market rejoiced and Google shares shot past $615 giving the company...
View ArticleEgypt Loses the Internet
Updated January 31: Added graph and discussion of remaining active paths Following a week of growing protests and periodic telecommunication disruption, Egypt suddenly lost all Internet connectivity at...
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