We wholesale to a lot of regional and local ISPs as well as several higher 
education institutions here in Washington State.   It was interesting to see 
the breakdown of traffic increases between types of customers.   We saw around 
2.5x the amount of traffic towards most of these customers as normal but some 
of the most dramatic increases were on corporate customers where obviously lots 
of people were watching the online streams.  Our monitoring indicated that in a 
couple of the markets we service had one of our competitors completely saturate 
their backbone so I think we got a bit more than we otherwise would have for 
the ISPs, our own non-multi-homed users were around 1.5X their normal peak by 
around 9 AM PST.

All-in-all, things seemed to  work well, most of the bump in traffic from our 
perspective came from our limelight networks and akamai peering sessions as 
others have indicated.   It was a good advertisement for having spare capacity 
handy.



John van Oppen
Spectrum Networks LLC / AS11404


-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weeks [mailto:sur...@mauigateway.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:28 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Inauguration streaming traffic



------- j...@west.net wrote: -------
From: Jay Hennigan <j...@west.net>

We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential.  We're seeing 
almost double our normal downstream traffic right now.  Anyone else?
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Not much of a traffic boost here in Hawaii as it happened at 7am local time.  
Most folks caught the first part on TV and rushed to work, evidently.


scott

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