Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Thu Jul 9 12:26:35 UTC 2009

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Labovitz [mailto:labovit at arbor.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:10 AM
> To: Shon Elliott
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
> 
> 
> It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but
> not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
> 
> A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with
> the daily average:
>      http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0
> 
> - Craig

Our traffic was doubled for MJ, actually 1/3 *more* than Obama.  However, we're regional to DC, so I can only imagine that since the inauguration was a huge local event, many of our customers were either working from home that day or actually there and not watching it on the internet.  

-evt