Both the Call of Duty free to play battle royal game (Blizzard) and a massive ~80GB update on Rainbow Six Siege (Steam) might both add to those traffic peaks.
Good drop in players in a short period of time while 60k-ish concurrent people downloaded that last one:
https://steamcharts.com/app/359550#48h
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+jeroen.wunnink=gtt.net@nanog.org> on behalf of "Kaiser, Erich" <erich@gotfusion.net>
Date: Tuesday, 10 March 2020 at 21:18
To: Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 5:08 PM Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
On 3/9/20 11:02 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote:
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> Warzone is a 83-101GB download for new, free-to-play users*.
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> And I remember the days when that would have taken 10 and a half years to download and consumed 56,000 floppy diskettes.
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> My, how times have changed!
>
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon full of tapes."