Re: AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020, Tom Paseka wrote:
> I am not worried. Residential ISPs are usually at peak in the late evening.
> They have loads of capacity during the day.

Do they have capacity to the right places?

The evening traffic peak is usually streaming entertainment bits from CDNs 
on the edge of the network.

Work From Home seems to be VPNs going between residential to business 
ISPs interconnections and lots of videoconferencing services (zoom, webex, 
etc).


I'm not an insider anymore, so I don't see what ISP capacity planners see 
on their dashboards.