Bebo White arranged a video meeting with people from RENATA and the ICT Ministry in Colombia on 1/20/2015. They have published a paper on some of their activities. A way forward would be to install one or more PingER monitoring hosts in Colombia so we can start to measure the end-to-end Internet performance from within Columbia.
The RENATA network in Colombia appears as:
Current situation 1/23/2015
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Where the blue background means no packets lost. It looks pretty good, no day/night differences (which would indicate congestion) . Couple of spikes. Low losses..
Routing
RENATA is connected to the Latin American IXP Red CLARA via Panama.
However, the The route from SLAC appears to go from SLAC to Sunnyvale to Los Angeles, to Texas, to Florida, to Venezuela, to Columbia. The route from www.ottix.net in Ottawa Canada also goes via Miami.
Overall route | US portion | Annotated traceroute |
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