COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Fri Mar 13 21:39:57 UTC 2020

Its already happening in Italy, and now that schools are shutting down here
as well, its going to get interesting:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/housebound-italian-kids-strain-network-with-fortnite-marathon

The ultimate traffic test is coming, looking forward to hearing about it on
this thread.

Maybe its a good time to start a communication channel between content
providers/gaming companies and ISPs/CDNs.

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:22 AM Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 3:46 PM g at 1337.io <lists at 1337.io> wrote:
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>> With talk of there being an involuntary statewide (WA) and then national
>> quarantines (house arrest) for multiple weeks, has anyone put thought into
>> the impacts of this on your networks if/when this comes to fruition?
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>> We're already pushing the limits with telecommuters / those that are WFH,
>> but I can only imagine what things will look like with everyone stuck at
>> home for any duration of time.
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> People will turn to you and every other ISP hoping you keep them online.
> So besides demand issues, keeping your network up will be important to a
> whole lot of people.
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> Rubens
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