Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

["Kaiser, Erich" <erich () gotfusion net>]

Except the CDN providing the content did not anticipate this type of influx
(How come I am not sure probably more concerned about new business revenue
and not thinking about the backend infrastructure) and has pushed over
costly peers for most of us.  BTW, we are still waiting for our PNIs with
them.    Very frustrating...


Erich Kaiser
The Fusion Network



On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:45 AM Hugo Slabbert <hugo () slabnet com> wrote:

> > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If
> you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
>
> :-)
>
>
> On Thu., Jan. 23, 2020, 09:40 Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
>
> > I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for
> > > capacity and speed.
> >
> > I think it's spot on.
> >
> > In years past it made more sense to distribute smaller , incremental
> > patches. More work on the software side, but it was likely a better option
> > than getting blasted on Twitter because "OMG I WANT TO PLAY AND MY DOWNLOAD
> > IS TAKING 8 HOURS".
> >
> > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If
> > you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :)
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > > 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