Work from Home and other dynamics

Mon Mar 9 13:41:30 UTC 2020

On 9/Mar/20 15:32, Jared Mauch wrote:

> I’m wondering what general trends people have seen with the recent reduction in travel and increased work from home activities.
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> I’m expecting that a number of networks are seeing increased traffic demand.  Enterprises are likely adding VPN licenses for staff that are now remote, etc..
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> I would expect increase (and decreases) similar to weekend traffic patterns. 
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> I’m expecting there will be more IPv6 traffic similar to what is seen during the Christmas/New Years holiday on this traffic as well:
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> https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
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> What interesting dynamics are you seeing?

Considering a very sparse number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in
Africa, no real change in Internet usage patterns, either in the
business or at home in our region, for the moment.

In short, life is still carrying on reasonably normal compared to other
continents which have been hard-hit. But we are keeping an eye on it as
South Africa has reported 4 new cases just this morning, all from a
group of 10 tourists that returned from Italy last week.

A few conferences have been cancelled, and I know some events that were
planned across the next 3 months have also been cancelled from within
our industry.

There is no indication that companies will be asking folk to work from
home, so we aren't expecting any major changes in how our people use the
Internet. At least not this week, anyway :-).

Mark.