COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Thu Mar 19 16:07:12 UTC 2020

Agreed... 720 or 1080 Netflix will work just as fine as 4K for the next 
month or two.

On 3/19/20 12:05 PM, Mike Bolitho wrote:
> I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and 
> gaming DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is 
> currently working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong 
> suggestion and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this 
> pushed harder in the coming weeks.
> 
> In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented 
> situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a 
> joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of 
> the internet during the battle against the virus propagation."
> 
> https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html
> 
> - Mike Bolitho
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu 
> <mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external
>      > BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large
>      > increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time.
>      > We're an eyeball network plus some really large
>      > customers.
>      >
>      > Anyone else seeing something different?  We're
>      > now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see
>      > something change by now.
> 
>     South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on
>     semi-lockdown from about Sunday.
> 
>     We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th.
> 
>     Mark.
> 