Speaking as just another fellow Internaut out on the edge. Thank you
ISPs networks and service providers and all the partners and supply
chains for keeping things going so well over the last month in particular.
It's great UKNOF is here. Can I encourage stats be published openly so
researchers can delve in as the dust settles to see if they can pick up
patterns across the Internet that can provide clue for future evolution
of networks and connectivity? As well as for presentations at UKNOF of
course!
best
Christian
On 17/04/2020 15:13, Neil J. McRae wrote:
Across _/all/_ flows there is a reduction in bandwidth usage, not just
VoD but also delivery by CDN’s in general.
In hindsight on the VoD side it was probably not needed from BT
network POV; however, the data we have as service providers is
limited, in the last three years there was only one big work from home
day in the UK in 2018. The traffic pretty much followed the same
profile but was twice the size. I was never concerned about home
working, but when the schools closed – that I knew would instantly
double the traffic we were seeing.
Personally speaking, after some idiots stated that the network
wouldn’t cope and other idiots reported on it without asking the
people who knew what they were talking about, so we as service
providers had to build confidence that the network would perform. I
had to talk to HMG many times to give them updates as they wanted
assurance (and rightly so). One of our big concerns was some of the
big videogames doing updates all on the same day and again the
videogame industry responded well.
On VOD, we’ve had our biggest VOD days in the last three weeks, lots
more flows using less bandwidth.
I doth my cap to OFCOM, DCMS, cabinet office and the department of
health whom have all, in my view, shown outstanding performance in my
personal engagement with them. Also our key suppliers Nokia, Huawei,
Adva, Ericsson, and Ciena have all knocked it out the park.
Netflix/Disney/Google/Youtube/Akamai/Limelight/L3/Activision/EA/EPIC
infact pretty much all of the CDNS and video gaming companies did a
fantastic job also and showed fantastic co-op.
Building that confidence was crucial and successful and we as an
industry have a huge amount to be proud about.
Regards,
Neil.
*From: *uknof <[email protected]> on behalf of Mark
Tinka <[email protected]>
*Date: *Friday, 17 April 2020 at 14:35
*To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [uknof] Fwd: [IP] COVID-19 Internet Usage Update (US)
On 17/Apr/20 14:51, Neil J. McRae wrote:
Yes I’ve been updating network stats for BT on my twitter page
almost daily although less so now as there isn’t a lot to say!
It’s mostly a non-event though. Our record for traffic is still
last year. We will do a full presentation on this but it’s
basically people connected, network worked.
Fixed network daytime usage much wider peak stays the same at
around 15Tb/sec, NHS claps causes at 15% reduction, mobile traffic
down 15%.
What I'm still most curious about is whether there has been an
appreciable decline in VoD streaming traffic for those providers
who've had to clamp down on resolution.
Mark.
