Glasnost: Bringing Transparency to the Internet

Today I came across this tool and subject of Internet traffic shaping by ISPs (Internet Service Provider).


"Glasnost" project was started by Dr. Krishna P. Gummadi, Head, Networked Systems Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS).


Purpose of this project is to check if ISPs around the world are shaping/manipulating the internet traffic purposefully to reduce broadband speeds generally known as Bandwidth throttling. But ISPs in some countries manipulate this bandwidth throttling policies, in order to shape the network traffic and reduce bandwidth usage.


For More information on Bandwidth throttling, go to its wikipedia page.


So in order to improve network transparency, Glasnost was started, currently it has two online tools which you can use to check if your ISP is shaping the traffic and providing you a lesser bandwidth.


There is comprehensive data/reports is/are available at its official website, which you can check out. In addition, there is a source code of the two tools as described above, how do these tools work, what are ideal & legal network bandwidth throttling policies, etc.


For More Information regarding project and other statistics, please visit - 
http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/


Note - Actual meaning of Glasnost - Its a Russian word for Openness. (It was the policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s.For More Info...)

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