KASPR Datahaus

KASPR Datahaus is an Australian internet-intelligence company that continuously measures and maps the world's digital infrastructure, providing latency, availability, and disruption data on more than 400 million endpoints across over 130 countries^[1][2]. The firm describes its offering as "predictive internet monitoring": remote measurements of internet performance combined with machine learning models that forecast network disruptions before they affect operations^[1].

KASPR Datahaus originated as a research project at Monash University and was incorporated as a Monash University spin-out in May 2018^[2]. Its data has been used in journalistic investigations of internet shutdowns and outages by outlets including Reuters, The Economist, ABC News, Wired, and The Washington Post, and is distributed commercially through channels such as the Snowflake Marketplace and the CARTO Spatial Data Catalog^[1][6].

What It Does

KASPR Datahaus operates a continuous global scanning infrastructure that measures internet performance in real time, tracking connectivity, latency, and availability at national and sub-national resolution^[1][2]. The company frames its work around three functions: monitoring digital infrastructure as disruptions unfold, predicting network performance with proprietary machine learning models, and converting those signals into alerts and data feeds for client decisions^[1].

Applications include tracking national-scale internet shutdowns and throttling during protests or conflicts, monitoring critical infrastructure alongside satellite imagery, and anticipating latency fluctuations hours in advance^[1].

Data And Methodology

Measurements are collected remotely, without installing software or applications on monitored devices, which the company presents as consistent with GDPR requirements and as ensuring consistent measurement across temporal and spatial units^[2]. According to the company, the platform holds roughly 6.7 trillion records and takes more than 3 billion daily measurements from over 400 million devices^[1].

The approach grew out of academic research on large-scale internet outage detection published in 2017^[3]. Since February 2019 the company has operated continuous, global scanning infrastructure^[2], building a multi-year longitudinal dataset that it cites as a barrier to replication^[2].

History

The underlying proof of concept dates to 2017, when the founding team published academic work on measuring the internet at global scale^[2][3]. KASPR Datahaus Pty Ltd was incorporated in May 2018 as a spin-out of Monash University, and continuous global scanning began in February 2019^[2]. In May 2024 the company graduated from the Creative Destruction Lab accelerator program^[2].

Products

The product set centers on an analytics platform that visualizes internet performance and disruptions, real-time actionable alerts, and data feeds of measured and predicted network conditions^[1][2]. Capabilities include differential analysis to separate systemic failures from deliberate network controls, simulation, and forecasts of latency fluctuations^[1].

KASPR also publishes technical documentation for its datasets and makes them available for interactive exploration through demonstration applications^[1][4].

Delivery And Pricing

Data is distributed through third-party platforms rather than bespoke pipelines: KASPR lists its datasets on the Snowflake Marketplace and in the CARTO Spatial Data Catalog, allowing integration without additional data engineering^[4][5]. The company describes this one-to-many distribution model as central to its business^[2]. Pricing is not published and is arranged through direct sales contact^[1].

Buyers And Use Cases

The company targets commercial clients in finance, telecommunications, insurance, and marketing, as well as public-sector and defense customers^[1]. Stated commercial uses include timing online marketing, trading, and cloud operations based on internet-performance intelligence^[1].

In journalism and research, KASPR data has been used to document internet suppression in Myanmar, connectivity during the war in Ukraine, communications damage in Gaza, and the 2023 Optus outage in Australia^[6].