{"51107":{"#nid":"51107","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Working Toward Broadband Transparency","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGoogle, New America and PlanetLab have joined with academia to launch \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u0022\u003EMeasurement Lab\u003C\/a\u003E (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nConstantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee and are developing tools for the site.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nM-Lab was announced during a panel discussion yesterday on \u201cBroadband\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nTransparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy\u201d at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. The\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nplatform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nResearchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nInitially three tools will be available, running on three servers at\u003Cbr \/\u003E\none location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsimultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nquickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nacross 12 locations early in 2009.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nFeamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nfor the site. Nano will help users automatically detect\u003Cbr \/\u003E\ndiscrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nworking on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nprovider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nproviding it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nwill be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u0022\u003E\n\u0026amp;lt;!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\u0022Cambria Math\u0022;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:1;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:swiss;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\u0022\u0022;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\u0022Calibri\u0022,\u0022sans-serif\u0022;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\u0022Times New Roman\u0022;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\u0022Times New Roman\u0022;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tline-height:115%;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1\u003C\/a\u003EGoogle, New America and PlanetLab have joined with academia to launch \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/\u0022\u003EMeasurement Lab\u003C\/a\u003E (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee and are developing tools for the site.--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\u0022Cambria Math\u0022;\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:1;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:roman;\n\tmso-font-format:other;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:0 0 0 0 0 0;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;\n\tmso-font-charset:0;\n\tmso-generic-font-family:swiss;\n\tmso-font-pitch:variable;\n\tmso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{mso-style-unhide:no;\n\tmso-style-qformat:yes;\n\tmso-style-parent:\u0022\u0022;\n\tmargin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:115%;\n\tmso-pagination:widow-orphan;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\u0022Calibri\u0022,\u0022sans-serif\u0022;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\u0022Times New Roman\u0022;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmso-default-props:yes;\n\tmso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;\n\tmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;\n\tmso-bidi-font-family:\u0022Times New Roman\u0022;\n\tmso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{mso-style-type:export-only;\n\tmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\n\tline-height:115%;}\n@page Section1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;\n\tmso-header-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-footer-margin:.5in;\n\tmso-paper-source:0;}\ndiv.Section1\n\t{page:Section1;}\n--\u0026amp;amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Working Toward Broadband Transparency\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform for researchers to deploy Internet measurement tools, was announced yesterday at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C. Computing faculty Nick Feamster and Constantine Dovrolis are on the steering committee.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was announced during a panel discussion on \u201cBroadband Transparency: Network Research, Empowered Users, and Sound Policy.\u201d The platform, which promises \u201cTools for Users, an Open Platform for Researchers and Better Open Data for Everyone,\u201d can be found at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.measurementlab.net\/.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br\u003C\/a\u003E \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Initially three tools will be available, running on three servers at one location, and they will be able to support only a limited number of simultaneous users. M-Lab organizers say the program will expand quickly, however, and promise a total of 36 servers to be deployed across 12 locations early in 2009.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;Feamster and computing Professor Mostafa Ammar are developing a tool for the site. Nano will help users automatically detect discrimination\/neutrality violations in their access ISPs. Dovrolis is working on DiffProbe, a tool that tries to detect if an Internet access provider is classifying certain kinds of traffic as \u0022low priority,\u0022 providing it with an inferior level of service. Both Nano and DiffProbe will be available on the M-Lab site soon.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;M-Lab was founded by the New America Foundation\u0027s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, Google Inc. and academic researchers.\u0026amp;amp;lt;br \/\u0026amp;amp;gt;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:40:06","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:30","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}