This year the IETF meeting in its 96th edition took place in the vibrating city of Berlin. We didn’t want to miss out on this important gathering and decided to contribute to one of their workshops on network measurement: nmrg.
We presented a study that was made in cooperation with LACNIC Labs, where the Latin America and Caribbean region was measured using Speedchecker ProbeAPI during one year, making possible to map the region in terms of connectivity. This allowed us to identify clusters of countries that were better connected between them than to the rest of the region. A definition for connectivity had to be defined in such a way that permitted to draw interesting and useful conclusions about the situation in the LAC region.
The video of our presentation at IETF96 can be found here, our presentation starts at minute 43:00. The original blog post by Agustín Formoso from LACNIC Labs can be found here.
The study was received with high interest by both the chairs and audience at the workshop, spawning interesting discussions during and after the session. We are happy to be able to participate and discuss our measurement experiences with the IETF/IRTF community. We collected valuable suggestions and comments which will surely help us point not only our measurement techniques in the right direction, but also develop our products and regional presence in a way that favors coverage and scientific precision.
The IETF 96 meeting has been a very nice experience, allowing us to get in touch and meet personally important actors of this worldwide community as well as keeping ourselves up to date with relevant decisions, norms and standards that are currently being discussed.