Network monitoring conclusions
Performance is getting better
ESnet is well provisioned
Within R&E networks things are good
Transoceanic, needs special care
Monitoring bare network
- If one wants to go beyond ping to start to understand network aware applications and understand the barriers to higher throughput it will need to involve the applications people. This would be less global than PingER, i.e. more focussed on point-to-point particular links and applications. This is not part of the monitoring group's responsibilities.
- Report on Survey & tracking of HEP network aware applications, QoS, prototyping work in the area of:
- distributed databases, data transfer, collaborative tools