Hi Ory, Thanks for sharing about this great initiative. I am sure the findings will be of great interest to all. I don't mean to be contrary - but don't you think that the name of the initiative will cause confusion? Nokia already have a continental initiative called M-Lab, and the local one is housed at the iHub. I am asking as an outsider to both the old and the new M-Lab - but mainly with reference to the fact that the question "which M-Lab" may arise in the future. Best regards, Brian On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Ory Okolloh <ookolloh@gmail.com> wrote:
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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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