Adkintun: SLA Monitoring of ISP Broadband Offerings

Abstract

Broadband Internet access has become a regular commodity on households around the world. For this reason, initiatives for characterization and monitoring of service offerings by Internet Service Providers (ISPs), by governments, researchers and independent entities have grown in popularity in the last few years. In this context, we present Adkintun, the Chilean initiative commanded by the Transports and Telecommunications Ministry (MTT) of Chile to NIC Chile Research Labs, in order to characterize the growing broadband Internet offer in that country providing an independent tool for consumers to monitor the effective quality of their provided service, and perform informed choices among chilean internet providers. In this article, we present the design, architecture and main results of Adkintun after a year of monitoring, measuring and characterizing chilean internet.