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Work on PingER Wide Area Network monitoring (also see potential tasks ).
- Using and extending the PingER project tools. This would include the measurement agents, the gathering and archiving, the analysis, the graphical presentation tools, the documentation etc.
- Provide improved PingER management tools to automatically discover problems, reporting relevant detailed information.
- Mining the data for research; analyzing to provide case studies of Internet events (such as cable cuts, new installations, political turmoil, earthquakes, tsunamis, trends, correlations with other non Internet indices etc.); providing status reports; devising new ways to analyze the data; identify, filter and report on anomalies in near real time; correlate the anomalies across multiple links and multiple metrics.
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