Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 17/Mar/20 19:46, Mike Bolitho wrote:

> I totally agree and 99.999% of the time, congestion on the Internet is
> a nuisance, not a critical problem. I'm not sitting here complaining
> that my public internet circuits don't have SLAs or that we run into
> some packet loss and latency here and there under normal operations.
> That's obviously to be expected. But this whole topic is around what
> to do when a once in a lifetime pandemic hits and we're faced with
> unseen levels of congestion across the country's infrastructure. I
> mean the thread is titled COVID-19 Vs Our Networks. That's why I
> brought up the possible application of TSP to tell some of the big
> CDNs that maybe they should limit 4K streaming or big DLCs during a
> pandemic. That's it. And yet I'm getting chastised (not necessarily by
> you) for suggesting that hospitals, governments, water treatment
> plants, power plants, first responders, etc are actually more
> important during times like this.

To me, sounds like a potential business case for an existing or new CDN
provider focused squarely on healthcare, and other such critical
services :-).

As is always the case with invention, "I didn't like what I found, so I
built a better one".

Mark.