Thanks Hugo, very interesting. Induced demand. Someone said recently… they’ve seen that no matter how much bandwidth you give a customer, they will eventually figure out how to use it. (whether they realize it or not… I guess it just happens)
-Aaron From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Hugo Slabbert Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2020 11:44 AM To: Tom Beecher Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that > This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you > build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand :-) On Thu., Jan. 23, 2020, 09:40 Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: I think this is a tribute to how we’ve built and upgraded networks for capacity and speed. I think it's spot on. In years past it made more sense to distribute smaller , incremental patches. More work on the software side, but it was likely a better option than getting blasted on Twitter because "OMG I WANT TO PLAY AND MY DOWNLOAD IS TAKING 8 HOURS". This just follows the same rules as networks have always seemed to; If you build it, they will come, and you'll have to build more. :) On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:57 AM Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: > 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
