Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks

[Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho () gmail com>]

I've said it over and over again, we have TSP and it could easily be used
to enforce priority to emergency preparedness customers. It's built into
the language.

- Mike Bolitho


On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:52 AM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:

> 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.