Visualizing Internet Traffic
A big provider of internet traffic optimization solutions - www.akamai.com - operate a set of free tools that allow real time net traffic visualization.
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Visualizing web traffic - http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz1.html - this tool visualizes real time traffic volume on a world map. Areas with high traffic are highlighted as hot spots. In addition, latency data is visualized (places with slowest traffic). It even shows attacked regions (visualizing hacker attacks).
- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz2.html - this tool illustrated latency and packet loss between any two chosen locations worldwide. Data is visualized on a world map.
- http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/index.html - Visualized visitors to global selected retail sites. Neat.
- Visualizing online news consumption - http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/news/index.html
- Visualizing online music consumption - http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/music/index.html