- Internet Mapping Project
The Internet Mapping Project [Cite journal |last=Cheswick |first=W. |coauthors=Burch, H. |title=Mapping the Internet |journal=IEEE Computer |date=April 1999 |volume = 32, No. 4] [Cite journal |last=Cheswick |first=Bill |coauthors=Burch, Hal, Branigan, Steve |title=Mapping and Visualizing the Internet |journal=Proceedings of the Usenix Annual Technical Conference, 2000. |date=2000 |url=http://www.usenix.com/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/general/full_papers/cheswick/cheswick.pdf] was started by
Bill Cheswick andHal Burch atBell Labs in 1997. It collected and preserved traceroute-style paths to some hundreds of thousands of networks almost daily for eight years. The project included visualization of the Internet data, and the Internet maps, which first appeared inWired Magazine in December 1998 were widely disseminated, and are still available as posters fromLumeta Corp .The technology is used by
Lumeta Corp , a spinoff ofBell Labs to map corporate and government networks.Although
Bill Cheswick left Lumeta in September 2006, Lumeta continues to map both the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet.See also
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Network mapping References
External links
* [http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/ The Internet Mapping Project]
* [http://www.cheswick.com/ches/map/dbs/ Selected mapping project data]
* [http://www.lumeta.com/ Lumeta Corporation]
* [http://blog.lumeta.com/?cat=11 Lumeta Blog on Internet Mapping]
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