[97497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Parameters on Subscriber side feelings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Mon Jun 18 08:38:01 2007
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:06:59 +0930
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: michael.dillon@bt.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4676746F.7000506@ukbroadband.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:02:55 +0100
Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
>
> michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
> >> is there any work or research on measuring method for
> >> subscriber (customer)side feelings of network service?
> >>
<snip>
> >
> We have been doing a lot of work on how to measure the subscriber
> "experience" of a network. e2e ping delay actually is quite a good
> measure so long as you use it correctly. However we found that using
> tools such as iperf to take periodic measurments of TCP throughput, UDP
> throughput and packet loss was far more interesting.
>
> --
> Leigh Porter
You might also find this OWAMP (One Way Active Measurement Protocol)
AKA "One Way Ping" implementation to be quite useful for that sort of
thing.
http://e2epi.internet2.edu/owamp/
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