Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

[Jared Mauch]

> On Jan 23, 2020, at 11:52 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@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