1. Digital Divide and PingER
Presented by Les Cottrell at the ICFA/SCIC meeting, July
Partially funded by DOE/MICS Field Work Proposal on Internet End-to-end Performance Monitoring (IEPM), also supported by IUPAP

2. PingER Benefits
Measures analyzes & reports round-trip times, losses, availability, throughput ...
Low impact on network << 100bits/s, important for many DD sites
Covers 75+ countries (99% of Internet connected population)
Provide historical and near real-time quantitative information
Aggregate by regions, affiliations etc.
How bad is performance to various regions?
Trends: who is catching up, falling behind?
Compare vs. economic, financial indicators etc.
Use for trouble shooting setting expectations, presenting to funding bodies

3. Collaborations & Funding
35+ monitoring sites in 15 countries
Plan to add ICTP Trieste if funded
SLAC with help from FNAL
Digital Divide collaboration (MOU) with ICTP, Trieste
eJDS
They are looking for a EU grant for eJDS and PingER
Tried earlier this year, but too late
Hopeful next year
Also looking for small grants for helpers in developing countries
Possibilities:

4. More Information PingER: eJDS
www-iepm.slac.stanford.edu/pinger/
eJDS
ICFA/SCIC Network Monitoring report, Jan03