Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[james jones <james.voip () gmail com>]

People have faster connections these days?

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:14 AM Bryan Holloway <bryan () shout net> wrote:

> This echoed events a month or so ago, and I'm curious as to what is
> making these releases more, uh, network-impacting.
>
> 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.
>
> Or is it just in my head?
>
>
> On 1/23/20 9:20 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > > On Jan 23, 2020, at 10:16 AM, Kaiser, Erich <erich () gotfusion net>
> wrote:
> > > Yeah we saw that as well. Must be a game release or something.
> >
> > Yes, that’s my understanding as well.
> >
> > - Jared