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date: 2021-11-11T13:31:43+02:00
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layout: event-talk
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title: "Wouter de Vries - Anycast: What is it and How to measure it"
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speakers:
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- wouter-de-vries
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platform: youtube
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url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osiiLsk7C3Y
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## Abstract
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In this talk we will take a look at Anycast, a network "technology" that —to put it bluntly— allows network operators to use the Internet as a giant load balancer. You will learn what Anycast is, how Internet users are affected by it, what problems it solves and what problems it causes.
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We will start by first looking at some real-world Anycast deployments, such as the one that is deployed by Google for its public DNS resolver, and learn that Internet routing is strange. Then, we will discuss Verfploeter, a methodology to comprehensively measure the performance of an anycast network that has been applied at one of the largest anycast deployments in the world.
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## Biography
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Wouter obtained his PhD with his thesis titled 'Improving Anycast with Measurements' in December 2019. Currently, he is a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare, still focusing on networks, but now from a security perspective. He has spent the past four years looking at (and researching) anycast from various angles. |