Alessandro Improta

Engineering Manager, Catchpoint
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Alessandro Improta is an engineering manager at Catchpoint. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer engineering and his Ph.D. in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy. Since 2009 he has held a research position with the Institute of Informatics and Telematics at the Italian National Research Council in Pisa. In 2010, he was a visitor at the AT&T Research Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey, working on the discovery of internet link characteristics. His research interests include the internet AS-level measurement and analysis, and the discovery of internet path characteristics.

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Is the Internet ready for L4S?

August 8, 2024
Network Experience
August 8, 2024

Windows 11: Run a better traceroute

June 13, 2024
Network Experience
June 13, 2024

Traceroute InSession: A traceroute tool for modern networks

March 26, 2024
Network Experience
March 26, 2024

Celebrating a BGP Monitoring Milestone & Catchpoint’s First Patent

July 11, 2023
News & Trends
BGP Monitoring
Network Experience
July 11, 2023

Traceroute InSession: Catchpoint’s effort towards a more reliable network diagnostic tool.

May 25, 2023
Network Experience
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Mythbusting IPv6 with Jan Zorz, and Why IPv6 Adoption is Slow

March 23, 2023
Network Experience
Cloud and Infrastructure
Catchpoint Platform
March 23, 2023

Microsoft Cloud Outage Causes Global Workforce Disruptions

January 26, 2023
Incident Management
Network Experience
Workforce Experience
Outage/Incident Review
January 26, 2023

3 Lessons from a DNS Resolution Failure Incident

September 15, 2022
DNS
Network Experience
Ecommerce
September 15, 2022

Incident Review - An Account Of The Telia Outage And Its Ripple Effect

October 8, 2021
3032
BGP Monitoring
Network Experience
Incident Management
October 8, 2021

Incident Review For the Facebook Outage: When Social Networks Go Anti-social

October 4, 2021
3031
Incident Management
BGP Monitoring
DNS
SRE
DevOps
October 4, 2021

Incident Review - What Was Behind the September 7 Spectrum Outage: A Case of Dr. BGP Hijack or Mr. BGP Mistake?

September 9, 2021
3023
BGP Monitoring
Network Experience
Incident Management
September 9, 2021

Vodafone Idea BGP leak: global routing system must implement MANRS

April 19, 2021
2983
Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
Workforce Experience
April 19, 2021

Milestone Met – 100k IPv6 Subnets Announced!

December 10, 2020
2958
News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
BGP Monitoring
Workforce Experience
SaaS
December 10, 2020

BGP Configuration Best Practices

May 7, 2020
2870
Synthetic Monitoring
BGP Monitoring
SLA Management
May 7, 2020

BGP Route Hijack Incident Review

April 30, 2020
2866
Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
BGP Monitoring
SLA Management
April 30, 2020