COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[beecher at beecher.cc (Tom Beecher)]

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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