IODA further localizes connectivity signals
The IODA team is excited to announce the release of a new feature which provides a more localized view of connectivity signals for helping detect and identify Internet disruptions effecting a specific network in a region or country.
Increased localization of Internet Connectivity Signals:
While IODA continues to provide Internet connectivity data at the country, region, and network (ASN/ISP) level, for networks operating across regions or across countries, the IODA team has now developed localized mapping of network signals to specific countries and regions. Previously, for networks operating in more than one country or region, users were not able to drill down to network signals mapped to a specific region or country. Now with this new feature, users will be able to use the search functionality to filter down to specific network-country or network-region connectivity views and toggle between localized and global views in our stacked horizon views found in our ASN/ISP Raw Signals panel. This new feature is in response to the desire for greater geographic granularity and more localized views of Internet connectivity.
To highlight the new feature, let’s look at an example of Internet connectivity data in Sumy, Ukraine. The first graph below shows connectivity signals across all networks operating in Sumy. We can see that there is a simultaneous drop in connectivity for both the Routing Announcements (green BGP line) and Active Probing (blue line).
Upon further drilling down, our team found a similarly timed drop in connectivity for Ukrainian ISP, Ukrtelnet (see graph on left below). The graph on the bottom right shows Ukrainian ISP Ukrtelnet connectivity just in the region of Sumy. Here we can see the power of the increased localization of network signals showing us that connectivity of Ukrtelnet in Sumy has dropped ~50%. Without this new data view, users wouldn’t be able to pinpoint the local impact of Ukrtelnet’s drop in Internet connectivity in Sumy.
Along with this increased localization of Internet connectivity signals, users will now be able to simultaneously navigate to specific country - region - network views using our new search bar functionality. Please take a moment to view the demo below that shows how to use this search navigation. We also walk you through how to toggle between local and global views in the ASN/ISP Raw Signal panel of IODA’s dashboard.
If you have any questions or feedback, please do reach out to us at ioda-info@cc.gatech.edu
We would like to recognize our amazing team of Internet Measurement experts who made this possible: Alberto Dainotti, Zachary Bischof, and Shane Alcock. Additionally, we are grateful to be at a university with incredible student talent! These students allow us to implement this work in the front end through both design, UX research, and development. Our current design team includes: Anezka Virani (Design Lead), Ross Bonifacio (UX Lead), Jin Kim, and Christine Zhang. Our front end development team includes: Chandan Prakash (Lead Developer) and Annie Yang.