Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Jeroen Wunnink <Jeroen.Wunnink () gtt net>]

Both the Call of Duty free to play battle royal game (Blizzard) and a massive ~80GB update on Rainbow Six Siege (Steam) 
might both add to those traffic peaks.
Good drop in players in a short period of time while 60k-ish concurrent people downloaded that last one: 
https://steamcharts.com/app/359550#48h



Jeroen Wunnink
Sr. Manager - Integration Engineering

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jeroen.wunnink=gtt.net () nanog org> on behalf of "Kaiser, Erich" <erich () gotfusion net>
Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 21:18
To: Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

It started about an half hr ago...


Erich Kaiser
The Fusion Network
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On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:08 PM Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net<mailto:bryan () shout net>> wrote:

On 3/9/20 11:02 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> Warzone is a 83-101GB download for new, free-to-play users*.
>
> And I remember the days when that would have taken 10 and a half years to download and consumed 56,000 floppy 
> diskettes.
>
> My, how times have changed!

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon full of tapes."