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Google today announced the launch of Measurement Lab (M-Lab), a joint project between the search engine, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers that aims to create an open platform for researchers to develop and deploy Internet measurement tools. M-Lab will offers tools that allow users to determine what is causing network slowdowns, if their connection is being throttled by their ISP, and allow researchers to access and share that information.
Google今天宣布启动 Measurement Lab (M-Lab)，这是搜索引擎，新美国基金会的开放技术研究所，PlanetLab联盟与学术研究人员之间的一项联合项目，旨在为研究人员创建一个开放的平台，以供开发和部署互联网测量工具。 M-Lab将提供工具，如果用户的ISP限制了他们的连接，它们将允许用户确定导致网络变慢的原因，并允许研究人员访问和共享该信息。
In other words, this is Google’s latest salvo in their campaign for network neutrality.
换句话说，这是Google在网络中立活动中的最新举措。
“At Google, we care deeply about sustaining the Internet as an open platform for consumer choice and innovation. No matter your views on net neutrality and ISP network management practices, everyone can agree that Internet users deserve to be well-informed about what they’re getting when they sign up for broadband, and good data is the bedrock of sound policy,” writes Google Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf and engineer Stephen Stuart in a blog post today. “Transparency has always been crucial to the success of the Internet, and, by advancing network research in this area, M-Lab aims to help sustain a healthy, innovative Internet.”
“在Google，我们非常关心维持互联网作为消费者选择和创新的开放平台。 无论您对网络中立性和ISP网络管理做法的看法如何，每个人都可以同意，互联网用户在注册宽带时应该得到充分的了解，而良好的数据是健全政策的基石。” Google Internet传播者Vint Cerf和工程师Stephen Stuart在今天的博客文章中。 “透明度一直是Internet成功的关键，通过推进该领域的网络研究，M-Lab旨在帮助维持健康，创新的Internet。”
Google has long been an advocate of network neutrality in the United States, and Cerf is on record as saying that letting ISPs throttle certain types of bandwidth would “fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.” The M-Lab tools will allow users to determine for themselves if their network connectivity issues are a result of ISP level throttling, or something more benign.
Google长期以来一直是美国倡导网络中立的倡导者 ，Cerf表示，让ISP限制某些类型的带宽将“从根本上破坏使互联网如此成功的原则”。 M-Lab工具将允许用户自己确定他们的网络连接问题是由于ISP级别限制还是更良性的结果。
Measurement Lab is launching with three tools that “help users attempt to diagnose common problems that might impair their broadband speed, as well as determine whether BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their ISPs.” The tools are running on servers at Google’s headquarters, and Google plans to donate 36 servers in 12 locations over the course of the next few months to run M-Lab applications.
Measurement Lab推出了三种工具，“可帮助用户尝试诊断可能会影响其宽带速度的常见问题，并确定BitTorrent是否受到其ISP的阻塞或限制”。 这些工具正在Google总部的服务器上运行，Google计划在未来几个月内在12个地点捐赠36台服务器，以运行M-Lab应用程序。
A problem for researchers in the past as far as deploying tools like these, says Google, is that they lacked access to servers with ample bandwidth in distributed locations. Along with providing a solution to that problem, M-Lab also offers ways for researchers to share their findings.
谷歌说，过去对于研究人员而言，部署此类工具的问题是他们无法访问分布式位置具有足够带宽的服务器。 除了提供针对该问题的解决方案外，M-Lab还为研究人员提供了分享他们的发现的方法。
Google’s announcement of M-Lab comes as net neutrality is in the news again today, thanks to an announcement from Cox Communications — American’s third largest cable provider — that it plans to begin testing a new method of “congestion management” in February that would throttle network traffic based on perceived time-sensitivity.
谷歌宣布M-Lab的同时，网络中立性今天再次成为新闻，这要归功于美国第三大有线电视提供商Cox Communications宣布它将计划在2月份开始测试一种新的“拥塞管理”方法，该方法将扼杀Google。基于感知的时间敏感性的网络流量。
翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/google-launches-tools-to-test-for-bandwidth-throttling/
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