Thanks Hugo, very interesting. Induced demand. Someone said recently… they’ve seen that no matter how much bandwidth you give a customer, they will eventually figure out how to use it. (whether they realize it or not… I guess it just happens)
-Aaron
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Slabbert
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:44 AM
To: Tom Beecher
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that
> 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, 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