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Notes from Performance Working Group at 2012 Spring Member Meeting

April 23, 2012http://events.internet2.edu/2012/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10002344&event=1036^{Image Removed}

• Welcome  -- Ken Miller, PSU (Working Group Co-Chair)

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• Performance Portal Preview (design, privacy considerations, etc.) - Jeff Boote and Aaron Brown, Internet2
     see slides at: http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring12/20120423-boote-perfportal.ppt^{Image Removed}

        • Using mock data currently
        • Call for participation to discuss operation and data privacy

• WAN Metrics Project at PSU (including financial angles of network measurement) – Ken Miller
           see slides at: http://www.internet2.edu/presentations/spring12/20120423-miller-psu-wan-metrics.pdf^{Image Removed}

 • Software Defined Networking / Open Flow - Group Inquiry
        • How do we measure openflow and the controllers?
        • A few people are running OpenFlow in test
        • Question from NYU about measuring openflow on layer 2 and layer 3.
        • Stanford wrote some software that will provide some measurements.

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A few people noted that they were using either Cacti, Arbor or InMon. An individual from a major university noted that they were using something called Profusus (?)“Proquesys Flowtraq” http://www.flowtraq.com/corporate/^{Image Added} . It was a flow monitoring solution that kept 100% of the data, without doing any aggregating. They use three flash drives in a RAID configuration to store the data, otherwise it'd take hours to track a single flow. Ken noted that the aggregating was why they'd gotten away from RRD.

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