Probing Next Generation Portuguese Academic Network

Abstract

Beyond plain connectivity, one of today’s biggest challenges for network managers and designers is guaranteeing network quality at any moment for evolving users’ needs. FCCN has been deploying several probes on the Portuguese Research and Education Network during last year. The analysis of data collected from this set of probes as well from other monitoring systems deployed inside RCTS will be considered. In this paper we will present and discuss the evaluation of the collected data by crosschecking results of the several monitoring systems. Our main focus will be the network layer running IPv6, but data from probes operated exclusively in IPv4 will also be presented, as a comparative source of network information.