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Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows
- From: Ratul Mahajan
- Date: Fri Nov 29 17:07:38 2002
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> How much of this research is based on marketing maps on the ISPs' web sites,
> versus actual maps of the networks in question? Most "tier 1" ISPs won't
> even let their vendors see the latter.
last year we *measured* isp maps as part of a research project called
rocketfuel and found that the marketing maps can differ significantly from
the real ones quite a bit because of lack-of-detail, outdated-ness, or
optimistic-projections. a paper describing the methodology and the maps
themselves can be found off:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/networking/rocketfuel/
-- ratul
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