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It is interesting to see that the minimum RTT of the 3 traceroutes correlates strongly (R^2 = 0.89) with the minimum ping response for the month of December 2012, see below. It should be noted that this is not the case for UNIMAS to Malaysian hosts (R^2 = 0.23).
The ASNs are obtained using Fixed Orbits to find the relevant AS. Then using a table of AS number to name you can find out more about the AS (e.g. contacts, HQ site etc.) Another source for finding AS' is Team Cymru's whois database
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