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<div>Hello all, </div><div>Can someone share an elevator pitch on why an ISP or an organisation that is on 24/7 needs to put a probe in their network. </div><div>What are the benefits they would get? </div><div>Has someone prepared a case study. </div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:9px">Regards DP </div><div style="font-size:9px">9849111010. </div><div style="font-size:9px"><br></div><div style="font-size:9px">Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any. </div></div><br><br><div style="font-size:100%;text-align:left;color:#000000">-------- Original message --------<br>From: Emile Aben <emile.aben@ripe.net> <br>Date: 25/08/2015 09:25 (GMT+05:30) <br>To: Sebastian Castro <sebastian@nzrs.net.nz> <br>Cc: ripe-atlas-ambassadors@ripe.net <br>Subject: Re: [RIPE Atlas Ambassadors] Deploying RIPE Atlas probes in more locations and networks <br><br></div>On 24/08/15 23:53, Sebastian Castro wrote:<br>> <br>> <br>> On 24/08/15 11:27 pm, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:<br>>> Dear ambassadors,<br>> <br>> Hi Vesna:<br>> <br>>><br>>> You’ve helped us do a great job in distributing RIPE Atlas probes to<br>>> many networks and regions of the world, but we still have work to do!<br>>> There are a few ways to find out exactly where we need your help:<br>>><br>>> 1) Networks with the most users and fewest probes<br>>><br>>> In order to increase topological diversity, it would be good to "target"<br>>> the users of the networks that don’t have a lot - or any - coverage.<br>>><br>>> This RIPE Labs article lists the top 20 ASNs:<br>>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/improving-ripe-atlas-coverage-what-networks-are-missing<br>>><br>>><br>>> Or you can see the raw-text table here, sorted by the network size:<br>>> http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas_eyeball_coverage.txt<br>>><br>> <br>> Emile's work is really valuable and much appreciated. Is it possible to<br>> have a date of generation on that file? It seems to be the same as few<br>> months ago, considering we have deployed probes in the last two months<br>> that increase coverage.<br><br>This was a one-off, timestamp on the file says I did that on 26 June.<br>I've just put a new one here:<br>http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/atlas-coverage/<br><br>>> 2) Comparing population density with the distribution of RIPE Atlas probes<br>>><br>>> Emile Aben used CartoDB to plot, population and probe density on the<br>>> same map:<br>>> https://emileaben.cartodb.com/viz/3caa5144-823e-11e4-8025-0e018d66dc29/public_map<br>>><br>>><br>>> https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/distribution-of-ripe-atlas-probes<br>>><br>>> 3) Comparing coverage between countries<br>>><br>>> This map shows the percentage of probes per country:<br>>> https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/density/<br>>><br>>> Whichever method you choose, we trust your instincts and your knowledge<br>>> of the local community to make the right decision and give probes to the<br>>> best people!<br>> <br>> We have a different method, that uses address space to determine which<br>> ASNs are relevant to cover.<br>> <br>> The eyeball method works for ISP that serve customers, but not for those<br>> that provide transit. Our methodology, that picks a BGP table dump and<br>> calculates the ratio of /24 versus number of probes helps us to have<br>> more coverage and to quickly identify targets.<br><br>Heh. We had a discussion last week in the office which boiled down to<br>pretty much what you describe here, as an alternative to 'eyeball' data.<br>I expect more in this space soon :)<br><br>Cheers and many thanks to all our ambassadors for the great work they<br>are doing!<br>Emile<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors mailing list<br>RIPE-Atlas-Ambassadors@ripe.net<br>https://www.ripe.net/mailman/listinfo/ripe-atlas-ambassadors<br></body></html>