MUMT621: Networks

Networks

MUMT 621

Links

Internet Maps

Compare:

www.queensu.ca via Toronto (2003-4; 2009-11)
www.washington.edu & www.seattleu.edu
www.ualberta.ca via Vancouver (2003)
www.ubc.ca off CAnet (2008)
www.ubc.ca back on CAnet (2010)
www.apple.com using Akamai server in Toronto (2010)
www.undp.org.fj in USA (2010)
www.fiji.gov.fj hosted by NTT (www.verio.com) in Englewood, CO (2010); in California (2011). Using Terestraglobal.net (2018)
www.mit.edu & www.bu.edu (2016)
traceroute www.nus.edu.sg on cqcounter.com Hong Kong-Australia-Japan-Australia-Singapore (2016)
www.naurugov.nr back on satellite (2018)

Tools:

ping
traceroute
nslookup
whois (cqcounter.com: also traceroute)
ip2location
Geobytes

Ping stats

Ping 64bytes minimum (time in ms.)	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2016	2018
www.utoronto.ca	12	24	19	12	12	12	10	9	8	9	9	12	17	20
www.queensu.ca	27	31	7	7	7	7	16	15	10	10	11	19	18	18
www.umanitoba.ca	32	33	33	34	34	34	32	32	32	36	32	38	30	29
www.ualberta.ca	80	50	50	50	50	50	48	49	49	54	53	59
www.ubc.ca	63	63	64	N/A	96	78	75	66	66	64	60	66	54
www.uvic.ca	67	65	66	66	74	69	67	67	67	66	61	68	56	55
www.sfu.ca						63	65	65	65	64	60	67	54	54
www.stanford.edu	80	98	100	105	92	87	89	87	88	87	83			19
www.indiana.edu	25	38	39	39	43	45	35	34	36	48	45	45	46	41
www.apple.com	73	101	77	88	92	81	74	9	8	8	9	9	9	20
www.google.ca				90	14	19	16	28	40	44	24	26	10	8
www.google.com				11	14	19	16	28	40	44	24	24	10	8
www.washington.edu	66	67	67	73	73	70	68	69	69	68	64	69	57	57
www.seattleu.edu		124	92	108	100	89	88	92	98	100	106	96	47
www.seattle.gov														82
www.mit.edu		19	20	20	21	18	18	N/A			8	9	10	15
www.bu.edu									18	18	18	18	18
www.columbia.edu		14	14	15	15	14	13	13	14	14	15	13	13	13
www.umd.edu		18	19	19	20	20	20	20	20	21	22			19
www.u-tokyo.ac.jp		192	208	196	199	196	203	203	192	166	174	181	167	170
www.edu.cn		272.	370	266	338	315	289	275	281	248	257			233
www.cuhk.edu.hk		229	243	231	277	256	260	216	215	213	228	212
www.ru.ac.za (South Africa)		418	245	280	304	280	299	354	344	310	306	299	299	262
www.puc.cl (Chile)		178	186	154	152	N/A	175	140	209	212	176	196	159	156
www.ircam.fr		91	91	112	140	134	128	115	104	128	113	112	84	84
www.jncasr.ac.in (Bangalore, India)		378	354	400	274	N/A							236
www.pdn.ac.lk (Sri Lanka)									355	357	372	375		299
www.gov.rw (Rwanda)		651	579	551	618	670	572	287	302	N/A		250	265	252
www.ku.edu.np (Nepal)		785	745	783	1670	N/A	349	310	359	366	249	322	337	300
www.nus.edu.sg (Singapore)		256	226	226	334	292	279			246	246	287	270	259
www.uq.edu.au		232	224	248	259	235	219	216	230	229	224	244	232	230
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca demon.gov.yk.ca (2008-)		151	78	83	N/A	87	85	91	88	81	78
www.undp.org.fj (Fiji)			848	826	259	N/A		96		65			2	81
www.fiji.gov.fj (not in Fiji?)			74	80	91	86	80	85	83	78	31	30	32	190
www.tarena.tj (Tajikistan)						707	663	221	234	248		440	199	230
www.naurugov.nr (Nauru)									732	736	877	756	424	736
www.tuvalu.tv (Discovered by J. Chan)									774
apache2.ninet.nf (Discovered by R. Nam)										808	830	395	273	275

Europe

Géant (map2004 map2006 map2009 map2010 map2012 map2014)
Global connectivity (map2011 map2012 map2014)
Géant routers (pick an European router and traceroute back to mcgill-gw.risq.net)
Geant2 video (August 2005)
Geant3 video (2009)
CentturyLink (Level 3) (map)

Asia

Pacific Northwest Gigapop (partners 2004; map2009; map2011; map2012)
Sinet.ad.jp (domestic map world_map) 40Gb; 2016: 100Gb

USA Internet Backbone

Internet2 (Consortium of over 200 universities) (LAN speed record for IPv4 8.8Gb/sec 2006/02: update)
Internet2 Network (replaced Abilene) (map)
- 100Gb
- Provided by Level3 (map)
- Fees
Abilene Network (replaced by Internet2; unplugged 2007/09)
- 10Gb, Internet2 backbone
- Indiana U. Qwest, Cisco, Juniper, Nortel
- Lease from Qwest
National LamdaRail (map) (merger with Internet2 cancelled 2007/11; ceased operation in March 2014)
- 40Gb
- Duke, GIT, Cisco, CENIC, etc.
- Owned by the Consortium
- NetworkWorldFusion
- The Chronicle of Higher Education article
Cogent "carries approximately 37 petabytes per day of Internet traffic" [wikipedia]
Level(3) Inc., which claims an average traffic level of 60 petabytes/month (2004) [wikipedia]
Wikipedia: Internet traffic

Broadband Internet Service Coverage in Canada (2014)

Canadian Internet Backbone

CA*net 1990 56Kbs CANARIE (1993)
CA*net2 1996 ATM155Mbs
CA*net3 1998 OC-48 2.4Gbs
CA*net4: (live map) 2002 OC-192 10Gbs
NREN map 2016 (traceroute www.auroracollege.nt.ca)

Québec Internet Backbone

RISQ

Ping 64bytes minimum (time in ms.)	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2016	2018
www.usherb.ca	4.1	3.9	3.9	4.1	5.3	4.5	4.5	4.3	4.4	4.3	4.8	4.5	5.1	4.4
www.ulaval.ca	4.3	5.1	5.3	5.0	6.9	7.4	5.1	5.6	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.9
www.nrc.ca	15	29.9	29.9	30.6	30.7	16.9	8	8	7.7	8.7	8.4		4.7	4.8
www.coll-outao.qc.ca (Outaouais) www.cegepoutaouais.qc.ca(2009)		3.9	3.7	3.8	4.1	4.6	4.2	3.2	3.0	3.1	3.2		105
www.calma.qc.ca www.collegealma.ca (2016)	38.5	10.4	39.6	11.3	18.4	225	8.2	18.6	8.6	8.7	8.4	9.4	8.8
www.cegep-rimouski.qc.ca		12.5	7.9		9.2	8.9	8.9	9.8	9.9	10.9	10.9	10.9	11.0	9.8
www.cec-chibougamau.qc.ca	44		9.7						19.3	19.7	11.5	17.6		9.4
www.uqat.ca (Abitibi-Témiscamingue)		16	13.6	15.9	17.6	18.5	22.5	28.3	29.2	3.13	32.5	32.3	20.7	17.7
www.cegep-baie-comeau.qc.ca*				13.6	26.5	25.8	2.2	1.3	1.2	9.0	2.0	27.6	2.0	1.7
www.cgaspesie.qc.ca				21.9	17.3									21.7

RISQ Hardware

Core Router: Cisco 12000 series (Cisco 12410) 200Gb $100-200K
Cisco ONS 15808 DWDM (2.5 & 10 Gbps long-haul)
Cisco ONS 15454 SONET Multiservice (up to OC-192 or 10Gbps)
Cisco ONS 15327 SONET (OC-48 & 10/100 Ethernet) (smaller version of 15454, 2.5Gbps)
Cisco ONS 15216 Metro DWDM Multiplexer (OC-48)
Cisco 6500 switch $20-$100K

McGill Backbone (wayback)

Network models

Bandwidth

Speed tester
- www.bandwidthplace.com
- www.testmyspeed.com
Home: 3-10Mbps (2011)
iPhone (3GS): 1-3Mbps (2011)

Created: 2003.01.14 Modified: Ichiro Fujinaga