[kictanet] Measurement lab in Kenya

[Ory Okolloh]

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Dear listers,



A few weeks ago, Measurement Lab Research Consortium (M-Lab) launched one
of its first locations in Africa, in partnership with KENET Kenya, Google
Africa, and many other industry and academic partners.

M-Lab is a collaborative effort working to provide an open, global,
publicly available source of data on network performance. To accomplish
this M-Lab takes a completely open approach, managing a purpose-built
global server platform designed specifically for network measurement.
Researchers deploy open-source measurement tools on this platform, and each
time a test is run using one of these tools, data is collected. Currently
M-Lab makes over 700 terabytes of raw, rich measurement data available to
anyone who’s interested.

M-Lab’s presence in Kenya (and also South Africa) mean that this data is
now being collected on African networks, giving a new and valuable source
of information about the health and performance of African infrastructure.

A more public launch will happen in a few weeks, for now I'm hoping to
drive some initial research ahead of that and invite you to look
into<http://measurementlab.net/data>the data, and to access
it here <https://storage.cloud.google.com/?arg=m-lab&pli=1#m-lab>.

If you’re interested in learning more about M-Lab, please visit
measurementlab.net. Finally, M-Lab has a full time staff dedicated to
answering questions and promoting research. Please don’t hesitate to
contact them with any questions: http://measurementlab.net/contact

Best,


Ory

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