Inauguration streaming traffic

Tue Jan 20 18:06:04 UTC 2009

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Hennigan [mailto:jay at west.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 12:21 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Inauguration streaming traffic
> 
> We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential.  We're seeing
> almost double our normal downstream traffic right now.  Anyone else?
> 
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> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay at impulse.net
> Impulse Internet Service  -  http://www.impulse.net/
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Peering sessions to Limelight tripled in downstream today.  No problems, just a lot of traffic.  Total aggregate into our network nearly doubled, but we service a lot of SMB and government agencies in the DC area, most of which had today off or telecommuted.

-evt