From November 17-19, Stephan Schroeder, Phillip Urbanik and Péter György will attend DENOG 16 in our home base of Berlin.
Send us a message if you’d like to arrange a meeting with the guys to talk network analytics.
It’s been a great Internet Measurement Conference so far!
Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD is attending with Florian Steurer, who today presented their joint paper “The Roots Go Deep: Resiliency of ‘.’ Under Change” (further authors included Daniel Wagner, Anja Feldmann and Tobias Fiebig).
You can read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/djQUJtBP
RIPE 89 is underway in Prague and in between plenty of conversations with familiar as well as new faces, Ingmar Poese also presented his co-authored paper “IPD: Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs”.
Take a look at the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dR95sEbw
For the first time ever we are Gold sponsors of Peering Asia!
On November 6 and 7 Hari and Stephan will be in Jakarta to catch up with the APAC peering community. Will you be there? Come and have a chat at the BENOCS booth in Ballroom C.
While Hari is in Toronto at NANOG, Ingmar Poese and Péter György are both busy preparing to visit RIPE89 in Prague next week.
On Tuesday, October 29, in the plenary session at 11:00 am, Ingmar will present the paper: **IPD: Detecting Traffic Ingress Points at ISPs**, which proposes an efficient approach that accurately identifies traffic ingress points at ISPs of any size using flow-level traffic traces. https://lnkd.in/du6p_s_r
The program for this years’ Internet Measurement Conference ist now online!
The paper “The Roots Go Deep: Resiliency of ‘.’ Under Change”, co-authored by BENOCS Senior Network Engineer Danny A. Lachos Perez, PhD, will be presented by Florian Steurer from Max Planck Institute for Informatics.
Take a look at the program here: https://lnkd.in/dd3xjnU9
Next week Hari Jayaraman is jetting off to Canada to attend NANOG 92 in Toronto.
Drop us a line to schedule a meeting with him!
SURF is the national research and education network (NREN) of The Netherlands. As a collaborative organization, SURF works with members of Dutch education and research institutions to ensure and increase the quality, efficiency and security of their nationwide networks.
SURF had held a direct interconnect with a well-renowned CDN since 2019. At the end of 2023 the IP Transit providers of SURF changed, and since then, SURF had been receiving 48% of the CDN traffic indirectly through one of the new transit providers. Without BENOCS Analytics, they didn’t have the visibility of the direct vs. indirect traffic, so this was an undiscovered challenge – or rather, a missed chance.
BENOCS Analytics offers network operators full visualization off all traffic traversing the network, Having seen the capabilities it offers, the team at SURF decided to invest in the tool to functionally and financially optimize their network. Specifically the ability to see direct and indirect traffic was an integral part of the decision for the peering team: a Sankey diagram that displays the traffic flow, as well as a time series and statistical table that reveal traffic levels over time, would uncover various opportunities to optimize their peering strategy.
After Flow Analytics was deployed, BENOCS’ data quality assurance team noticed the large amount of indirect traffic from a major CDN and informed Joachim, network engineer at SURF. Joachim was already in contact with the BGP Engineer of the CDN in question, and suggested corrections to the BGP announcements to steer traffic towards the direct interconnection and not via a transit provider.
After this change was implemented by the CDN end of May 2024, the direct traffic jumped from 42% to 80%, an absolute increase of 90%. Consequently, the indirect traffic fell, from 58% to 20%, bringing the traffic flow to the IP upstream provider below the Committed Data Rate (CDR). This shift in traffic to the direct interconnection with the CDN network saved substantial monthly costs for SURF.
In the coming months, SURF will cooperate with BENOCS to implement BGP-LS functionality within the product. For SURF this provides a secure and scalable way to update the network topology within BENOCS automatically, and be able to visualize backbone traffic.
Furthermore, SURF will work with BENOCS to look at traffic in multiple VRFs and analyze traffic flows in separate services that run on the network.
Implementing BENOCS Analytics was a lightbulb moment for SURF: upon seeing the amount of indirect traffic entering their network, the Dutch NREN was able to adjust their peering accordingly. This resulted in substantial financial savings and optimized traffic flow. BENOCS Analytics is now an essential tool in SURF’s peering management and strategy.
This Friday, Sep 27, Ingmar Poese will give a talk at Future Computing and Networking Workshop in Hanover, Germany. Entitled “From Research to Business”, his talk will give the participants insight into the devlopment of BENOCS from its beginnings as a research project into the company it is today.
FCN24 is an academic event, jointly organized by Leibniz Universität Hannover, Delft University of Technology, University of Helsinki, Tsinghua University, Technical University of Munich, and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. https://lnkd.in/eMP38Uh7
Some of the topics this year’s workshop will cover are:
🌐 Edge Computing
🤖 Generative AI
📱 Future Mobile 6G
📡 IoT Systems and Communications
💻 Approximate Computing
📈 Data Analytics
We are really excited to be sponsoring European Peering Forum again this year! 🎉
Next week Stephan Schroeder, Aitor Mendaza-Ormaza, Péter György and Hari Jayaraman will be in Vienna to catch up with the European peering community. Come and visit us at our booth or get in touch beforehand if you’d like to set up a meeting with the team.
