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==== RIPE Atlas Probe Information ==== If you don't know the RIPE Atlas probes, they are small boxes that you connect to the network and which perform active measurements [[https://atlas.ripe.net/|https://atlas.ripe.net/]]. The great thing about these probes is that you can run your very own measurements [[https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm|https://atlas.ripe.net/doc/udm]], leading to interesting/funny papers like [[https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/all-ip-addresses-are-equal-dot-zero-addresses-are-less-equal|https://labs.ripe.net/Members/stephane_bortzmeyer/all-ip-addresses-are-equal-dot-zero-addresses-are-less-equal]] . More Atlas probes are always good, specially outside of Europe and the USA, where the majority currently exist. To help the distribution of probes, there are people ("ambassadors") at many meetings, carrying Atlas probes to distribute. In Yokohama, there will be several of them. If you are interested to host an Atlas probe to help mankind and the Internet, please check that you can host a probe: you need power-over-USB and Ethernet cabling and IP addresses (RFC 1918 are OK) and to take care of the box (some probes have not been installed, have been forgotten and no longer respond, which is sad). ==== Probe locations ==== Check also if there is sufficient coverage or not in your country/AS [[https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/|https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/]] Having more probes in networks where there are not many (or any) probes already is always great! This meeting in Japan is a good opportunity to reach people with the ability to plug probes into networks not already covered. The RIPE Atlas team have identified the following ASNs within the region as being 'most wanted'. If you are able to help cover any of these networks, please contact one of the probe ambassadors! (Of course if you can cover any ASN not listed below, but not already covered, this would also be very helpful) Japan 9605 DOCOMO NTT DOCOMO, INC. 10010 TOKAI TOKAI Communications Corporation 9617 ZAQ KANSAI MULTIMEDIA SERVICE COMPANY 37903 EMOBILE Ymobile Corporation 4725 ODN SoftBank Mobile Corp. Singapore 3758 ERX-SINGNET SingNet 45143 SINGTELMOBILE-AS-AP SINGTEL MOBILE INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER Singapore 10146 FORD-MOTOR-CO-SG-AP Ford Motor Company 4657 STARHUBINTERNET-AS StarHub Internet Exchange 17547 QALA-SG-AP M1 CONNECT PTE. LTD. 9989 EQUINIX-AP Equinix Singapore Pte Ltd 7472 NUS-AS-AP Computer Centre 133466 BOSCH-NET-AP Robert Bosch GmbH 9911 CONNECTPLUS-AP Singapore Telecom 9419 NTU-AS-AP Nanyang Technological University 17819 ASN-EQUINIX-AP Equinix Asia Pacific China 4837 CHINA169-BACKBONE CNCGROUP China169 Backbone 9808 CMNET-GD Guangdong Mobile Communication Co.Ltd. 4808 CHINA169-BJ CNCGROUP IP network China169 Beijing Province Network 56041 CMNET-ZHEJIANG-AP China Mobile communications corporation 23724 CHINANET-IDC-BJ-AP IDC, China Telecommunications Corporation 24444 CMNET-V4SHANDONG-AS-AP Shandong Mobile Communication Company Limited 17816 CHINA169-GZ China Unicom IP network China169 Guangdong province 9394 CTTNET China TieTong Telecommunications Corporation 56040 CMNET-GUANGDONG-AP China Mobile communications corporation 17785 CHINATELECOM-HA-AS-AP asn for Henan Provincial Net of CT 17623 CNCGROUP-SZ China Unicom Shenzen network ==== Atlas Probes Distribution at IETF94 ==== The following Atlas Ambassadors are bringing probes to Yokohama: Colin Petrie - please email me at cpetrie@ripe.net if you want a probe, and we can arrange to meet Kaveh Ranjbar Randy Bush - Just a probe mule, not an ambassador (don't have the clothes). Email me at randy@psg.com, or I may be at the Help Desk in the Terminal Room Stéphane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer+atlas@nic.fr I don't have probes (ask the RIPE people) but I use User-Defined Measurements a lot and contributed to client code so I can help with any measurement project. You can also ask the ambassadors any question you may have about the RIPE Atlas probes.
