Using the AT&T Labs PacketScope for Internet Measurements, Design, and Performance Analysis. Nikos Anerousis, Ramon, Caceres, Nick Duffield, Anja Feldmann, Albert Greenberg, Chuck Kalmanek, Partho Mishra, K.K. Ramakrishnan, Jennifer Rexford. Services and Infrastructure Performance Symposium 1997, November 1997.

    Abstract

    This note describes the AT&T Labs PacketScope, a high performance sys tem for packet-level Internet measurement, which we have developed with the help of a great many others in AT&T Worldnetsm and AT&T Networking and Computer Systems. The NYC PacketScope, operational in June 1997, harvests about 10M packet headers per day on links between AT&T Worldnetsm and the external Internet. The Bridgeton, Missouri PacketScope, deployed in July 1997, can monitor a variety of traffic from the dial platform, web hosting and other servers, as well as gate way links to the external Internet. The data has a wide range of applications to AT&T Worldnetsm marketing, engineering, and service provisioning. One applic ation is described here: to the design and performance tuning of the IP over ATM infrastructure for AT&T's ATM common backbone, which will provide the network platform for AT&T WorldNet. Finally, we offer some remarks on ongoing simulation and analytic work.