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["Basney, Jim" <jbasney AT illinois.edu>]

On 3/3/17, 8:52 AM, Chris Phillips wrote:
> Are there cases of other internet scale components that do this? I'm
> skeptical that there are and they probably don't do it for a reason.

I offer perfSONAR as a model: 
http://www.perfsonar.net/about/who-uses-perfsonar/ 

Having perfSONAR probes operating globally has been extremely useful for 
detecting and diagnosing wide-area networking problems impacting large scale 
science projects.

-Jim