AWESOME WEBSITE DISCOVERED!

As I was trawling over the links on howstuffworks - The Internet; I ran across a link to this site, the type of which is one I have been searching for a while, analytics tools, studies, amazing statistics and vizualisations of internet maps etc - it was almost my white whale but 'Thar she blows!'

http://www.caida.org
'Skitter' data is collected by sending packets in a similar manner to traceroute, where it can be measured in terms of its path, 'hops' taken and round-trip time to develop a fuller picture of the network that has been utilised in its 'journey'. Network characteristics can then be analysed and information on routing changes and IP connectivity can be gauged by comparing output skitter graphs.