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

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>]

> On Mar 12, 2020, at 6:55 PM, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:
>
> 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).

Yes, this is what I’m concerned about.  Most of the content/cloud people have built networks around the capacity needed 
to get bits into the networks and often aggressively peer.

The corporate office that is behind one incumbent that now has a global set of people doing VPN activities at 10x the 
prior capacity of a week ago may have a harder time fitting.

I expect there will be areas which see a higher base load that contributes to seeing the peaks earlier.

- Jared