On 9/Mar/20 15:32, Jared Mauch wrote:

I’m wondering what general trends people have seen with the recent reduction in travel and increased work from home activities.

I’m expecting that a number of networks are seeing increased traffic demand. Enterprises are likely adding VPN licenses for staff that are now remote, etc..

I would expect increase (and decreases) similar to weekend traffic patterns.

I’m expecting there will be more IPv6 traffic similar to what is seen during the Christmas/New Years holiday on this traffic as well:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

What interesting dynamics are you seeing?

Considering a very sparse number of confirmed Coronavirus cases in Africa, no real change in Internet usage patterns, either in the business or at home in our region, for the moment. In short, life is still carrying on reasonably normal compared to other continents which have been hard-hit. But we are keeping an eye on it as South Africa has reported 4 new cases just this morning, all from a group of 10 tourists that returned from Italy last week. A few conferences have been cancelled, and I know some events that were planned across the next 3 months have also been cancelled from within our industry. There is no indication that companies will be asking folk to work from home, so we aren't expecting any major changes in how our people use the Internet. At least not this week, anyway :-). Mark.

For those ISPs who have high-capacity DIA/IP transit circuits (10Gbps+) feeding major corporate campuses, I'm curious what the traffic charts M-F look like compared to previous weeks. Particularly for what time it begins to rise sharply in the morning, and the daily peak value. I have a theory that such customers in the Seattle area may have particularly odd traffic patterns at present. Anecdotally for a few things I have access to I am seeing much lower than normal office worker DIA usage. On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 6:33 AM Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net> wrote:

I’m wondering what general trends people have seen with the recent reduction in travel and increased work from home activities.

I’m expecting that a number of networks are seeing increased traffic demand. Enterprises are likely adding VPN licenses for staff that are now remote, etc..

I would expect increase (and decreases) similar to weekend traffic patterns.

I’m expecting there will be more IPv6 traffic similar to what is seen during the Christmas/New Years holiday on this traffic as well:

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

What interesting dynamics are you seeing?

- Jared