Open Monitor: Building a World Wide Internet Connectivity Monitor | Linux Today

Open Monitor: Building a World Wide Internet Connectivity Monitor

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 27, 2012

“Despite all the magnificent improvements to both technology and
the internet these days, we lack a free and open source real time
internet connectivity monitor from which anyone can tell what the
connectivity conditions are in any part of the world.

Solving this problem is a huge undertaking, but at Umit Project,
we saw a chance to start developing such a solution through the
Google Summer of Code when we were chosen as a mentoring
organization for the 2011 program.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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