[atlas] Why has probe growth stagnated?

Hard to get new probes these days.

On 14.02.19, 18:10, "ripe-atlas on behalf of Hank Nussbacher" <ripe-atlas-bounces at ripe.net on behalf of hank at efes.iucc.ac.il> wrote:

    On 12/02/2019 18:22, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
    
    As I am preparing my presentation I went to the stats page:
    https://atlas.ripe.net/results/maps/network-coverage/
    and found that even user growth continues upward as well as number of 
    anchor probes, the number of actual probes has more or less tapered off 
    as of mid-2017 and ends close to 10,000 probes.  Why is that?
    Since Nov 2015 when we passed the 9000 probe mark, probe growth is 
    negligible.
    Why have all these new users (20,000 new uses since Nov 2015!) not added 
    probes?
    What are we doing wrong to entice users to install probes?
    
    Regards,
    Hank
    
    > I have been invited to a large CS dept in a university to give a 40 
    > minute intro into
    > what is RIPE ATLAS, how does it work, how do you get credits, how many 
    > probes
    > are there, what is an anchor, where are they located, how does the GUI 
    > work, what type of measurements
    > can one do, etc.  Very very introductory - just to whet their 
    > appetite.  A basic intro to RIPE ATLAS.
    > So I looked in:
    > https://atlas.ripe.net/resources/training-and-materials/
    > and didn't find anything (PS the webinar link is broken).
    > I am sure there must be some PPT/PDF presentation out there for this.
    > Pointers?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Hank