TelescopeVisualizer: a real-time internet information visualizer with a flexible user interface

Visualizing the Internet activities has been an interesting and challenging research issue. Many successful efforts were concentrated around visualizing a single aspect of the Internet. However such fixed application user interfaces cannot cope with visualizing the diversity of network information and ever changing nature of the Internet. We present TelescopeVisualizer, a scalable real-time Internet information visualizer that allows for querying and visualizing multiple aspects of the Internet interactions. TelescopeVisualizer's XAML based flexible user interface avoids tight coupling of visualization application with the rest of the system making it possible to visualize Internet information in realtime. It allows users to upload custom query layouts, post queries and change the visualizations as they require. Using a query traffic generator application, we demonstrate scalability of TelescopeVisualizer system in different hardware platforms.