Re: [Thumbgps-devel] data collection

[tz <thomas@mich.com>]

One thing to note - a traceroute or something similar might be
necessary if we are measuring the network.
I'm down the street from Level 3, but use Comcast, and a Verizon mifi,
so packets are going to take different routes.
The GPS location is one thing, but a backbone map would also be
relevant if not required.

One thing which might help is if a major backbone vendor (cisco, arbor
networks) would adopt this technology into one of their high-end
switches.  They probably do something similar already to get somewhat
accurate time, but perhaps without the precision and they typically
aren't running stratum 1 servers on or a hop from the backbones which
might be the most interesting.

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:
> But back to the network mapping front, one reason I'd chosen postgres
> for a backend was the geography support, being able to calculate in
> curves seemed like a good idea. I'm curious if anybody has other
> thoughts for a backend to a global time slew database?