Internet mapping projects, based on either BGP tables (RouteViews o RIPE RIS) or traceroutes (Ark CAIDA), have just a few or any vantage points beyond Europe or North America.
Due to the nature of Internet routing, without worldwide-spread vantage points, it is impossible to get information from local peering links, which finally leads to generate incomplete Internet maps.
In order to understand how much information is being missed without local probes in Latin America, we added routing information provided by Looking Glasses in Argentina and Brazil.
Moreover, we reused PladMeD (see Bolivian IXP project) traceroute information to improve the dataset and determinate how many links are missing in small countries such as Bolivia.
Using all this information, we plotted graphs to compare the initial and improved dataset.
These results are hosted in this website:
Internet Topology in Latin America
Paraguay is close to release its first IXP which it going to create a major impact on local Internet.
Looking forward to generating the same analysis that we have done in Bolivia (see Bolivian IXP project) previously, supported by Internet Society, our aim is to analyze which is the impact of this local interchange point on QoS, and at the same time analyze the growth of the network and its traffic.
This project is on its first stage and its measurements will be useful to compare the parameters before and after the IXP turns on.
Our previous experience in Bolivia, and also the gathered data, can be used to compare and contrast the two latest IXP in Latin America.
The evolution of the paremeters are updated weekly on this website:
Analysis of Paraguayan IXP (ongoing, Spanish version)
Bolivia released its first IXP in 2013 and after that, Internet Society supported us to study the benefits that this infrastructure had introduced in the Bolivian network.
This project studied the variation on hop distance and latency during 2014 and its main focus was set in showing the difference between packets routed by local ASes and by international transit providers.
In addition, the IXP might encourage the local Internet industry so we analyzed the evolution on services provided under IP address delegated from LACNIC to Bolivia.
This analysis is posted in detail in this website:
Analysis of Bolivian IXP (2014, Spanish version)