Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:13:15 +0100, Bryan Holloway said:
>
> > Game releases are hardly a new thing, but these last two events seem to
> > be almost an order of magnitude higher than what we're used to (at least
> > on our predominantly eyeball network.)
> >
> > Any thoughts from the community? We're taking steps to accommodate, but
> > from a capacity-planning perspective, this seems non-linear to me.
>
> Be prepared for an entire new world of hurt this holiday season. Sony has already
> confirmed that PS5 releases will ship on 100Gbyte blu-ray disks.  Which means that
> download sizes will be comparable…

There’s also the “we will stream you all the data things” I keep hearing about like the
Consoles without discs or some other thing I can’t remember the name of.

I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for capacity and speed.

- Jared