I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for capacity and speed.
> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
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> On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:13:15 +0100, Bryan Holloway said:
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>> 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