Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

EU regulations with such things are vastly different than in the US.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 12:08 PM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho () gmail com> wrote:

> I was getting blasted earlier for suggesting streaming services and gaming
> DLCs could likely be slowed by government intervention. EU is currently
> working with Netflix to do just that. It's currently a strong suggestion
> and even a plead but I maintain that we're going to see this pushed harder
> in the coming weeks.
>
> In a statement on Thursday, Breton said that given the unprecedented
> situation, streaming platforms, telecom operators and users "all have a
> joint responsibility to take steps to ensure the smooth functioning of the
> internet during the battle against the virus propagation."
>
> https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/tech/netflix-internet-overload-eu/index.html
>
>
> - Mike Bolitho
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:03 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
>
> > On 19/Mar/20 04:35, Scott Weeks wrote:
> > > We do about 70-80Gbps at peak over the external
> > > BGP links we have and I am not seeing a large
> > > increase nor am I seeing it spread out over time.
> > > We're an eyeball network plus some really large
> > > customers.
> > >
> > > Anyone else seeing something different?  We're
> > > now into the 3rd day, so I thought I'd see
> > > something change by now.
> >
> > South Africa and a few other African countries put countries on
> > semi-lockdown from about Sunday.
> >
> > We've seen a 15% increase in peak traffic on our network since the 17th.
> >
> > Mark.