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Internet Atlas Gallery

This gallery is a collection of results of the Internet Atlas Project which ran from 1999 to 2004. These links are left for historical and archival purposes.

Maps and Visualizations

Additional Content

Skitter data using Hypviewer: Internet Atlas Gallery

skitter Data Using hypviewer

Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

This image shows that many paths from our skitter source monitor (riesling.caida.org) traverse 204.70.1.197. The source is not visible, but is in one of the clouds to the left of the sphere. Note the high outdegree of 204.70.1.197: it has many next hops. There are also a number of large networks behind this router, as seen by the clusters of nodes and links visible behind the fanout on the right side of the sphere.

NSFNET: Internet Atlas Gallery

NSFNET growth until 1995

Donna Cox and Robert Patterson
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA),
National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu

NSFNET was a series of networks coordinated by NFS, created to serve research and education purposes. Based on ARPANET protocols, NFSNET served as the backbone of a growing internet up until April 1995. The role of the backbone has since been handed over to several commercial carriers, dissolving the notion of a single national Internet backbone.

Abilene Weather Map: Internet Atlas Gallery

Abilene Weather Map (using MRTG data)

Mark Meiss
Indiana University Network Operations Center
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (IU)
URL: http://hydra.uits.iu.edu/~abilene/traffic/
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MBone: Internet Atlas Gallery

Mbone Tunnels of the Major Backbone Networks

Tamara MunznerStanford University
Eric Hoffman Ipsilon Networks
kc claffy CAIDA at SDSC
Bill Fenner Xerox PARC

URL: http://www-graphics.stanford.edu/papers/mbone/
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Reverse traceroute: Internet Atlas Gallery

World-Wide Mapping of Reverse traceroute and looking glass Servers

Wilfred Dittmer
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
URL: https://www.caida.org/research/routing/reversetrace
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Layout Showing the Major ISPs: Internet Atlas Gallery

Layout Showing the Major ISPs

Bill Cheswick, Bell Labs and Hal Burch, CMU
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Computer Science Dept.

 URL: https://www.bell-labs.com/about/history/#gref

Frequent traceroute-style path probes are used to build a tree showing the paths to most of the nets on the Internet. Once the layout is computed, the map can be colored to show geographical clues, network capacity, or IP addresses. In this example, color distinguishes different ISPs.

Internet Atlas Gallery

Core AS Internet

Cooperative Assocation for Data Analysis (CAIDA)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
URL: https://www.caida.org/projects/as-core/

This graph combines dimensions showing peering richness and geographic information, revealing the highly 'core-connected' nature of Autonomous Systems (ASes). Polar angles represent the longitude of the AS headquarters, enabling consideration of continental implications of AS richness.

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GTrace: Internet Atlas Gallery

GTrace - Geographical Traceroute

Ram Periakarrupen
Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA)
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
URL: https://www.caida.org/catalog/software/gtrace/

GTrace is a graphical front end to traceroute that uses a number of heuristics to determine the location of each node along a network path.

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