COVID-19 vs. our Networks

Thu Mar 19 16:53:39 UTC 2020

I've said it over and over again, we have TSP and it could easily be used
to enforce priority to emergency preparedness customers. It's built into
the language.

- Mike Bolitho

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:52 AM Tom Beecher <beecher at beecher.cc> wrote:

> EU regulations with such things are vastly different than in the US.
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:08 PM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho at gmail.com>
> 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> 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.
>>>
>>
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