On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 8:51 AM Livingood, Jason < jason_living...@comcast.com> wrote:
> > Folks saw congestion from a massive free content drop this past week. > > But as folks had called out, that was the CDN angle of distributing that > content rather than the actual game play. There is a rather long discussion > about that in the "akamai yesterday - what in the world was that" thread > from Jan/Feb/March. > > Whether people end up adjusting plans around large content distribution > at this time, I guess remains to be seen. > > (*this is 100% my personal opinion**) Perhaps we are approaching at time > when large content distribution events such as the one noted above will be > configured so as to minimize any potential network effects (e.g. pushing to > off-peak or applying server-side per connection rate limits). The Internet > is a shared resource and as such we all share responsibility to work > together and act in a way as to maintain the performance & reliability of > the Internet as a whole. > > JL Sadly, both marketing headlines and peering contracts / requirements reward pushing ever higher peaks instead of smartly filling troughs. CB > > >