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The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) is getting closer to giving the world live 'net congestion maps and alerts. It's outlined the current state of its development here. The effort, ongoing since 2014, will eventually provide a “real time” view of congestion events around the world – something that might look …

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  1. tiggity Silver badge

    oroberus

    Will we reach a point where their probe tool bdrmap becomes a source of congestion? They do say they are continually increasing their probing .....

    If my server logs are anything to go by, lots of bandwidth clogged by umpteen search bots and script kiddie attack attempts

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  2. streaky

    Oh..

    I've been working on a similar system, I'll be interested to see how they visualize that data on a global scale in real time because it's been my main blocker..

    Interesting that it sounds like they've taken different approaches to data collection to what I have - but then they probably also have more resources than me :)

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  3. lansalot

    CAIDA? As in AL CAIDA ???

    Errr... Illuminati confirmed or something.

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  4. Anonymous South African Coward Bronze badge

    Will you be able to drill down to individual ISP's or IP's?

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  5. Alan J. Wylie

    Smokeping

    There are already many SmokePing graphs out there, e.g. a quick google for "smokeping linx" returns

    http://saturn.retrosnub.co.uk/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=london.be

    which leads to

    http://saturn.retrosnub.co.uk/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=london

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    1. streaky
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      Re: Smokeping

      Smokeping isn't this quite clearly if you're trying to say what I think you're saying;.

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