Subj : Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
To   : Nightfox
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sat Nov 16 2024 07:43 pm

  Re: Ok .. Tyson or Jake?
  By: Nightfox to j0hnny a1pha on Sat Nov 16 2024 11:04:58

Hi, Nightfox.

 > I didn't watch the fight, but that bugs me about streaming services.  If it
 > was televized on broadcast/cable TV, there wouldn't be any streaming issues.
 > I know a few people who were also watching the fight last night and they
 > were having buffering issues too.

I was talking to one of my customers in the week (my customers are UK altnets, 
usually 1 - 100k subscribers with most at the lower end of that) and he was 
saying there had been (I think it was) a Call of Duty patch pushed last week 
which saw them soak up over a Tbps of traffic for several hours. I will have to 
ask him what the fight did to their peering...

As much as people will automatically blame Netflix for the buffering, it's 
really hard for an ISP to model a network for these kinds of peaks, which are 
often more than one order of magnitude above "normal" peak traffic levels. 
Everyone would love to lay on 100x as much transit and peering as they normally 
need but then nobody would buy their product because it just wouldn't cost in. 
Not to mention that throwing gigabit fibre services into residential customers 
means the edge has orders of magnitude more capacity than the core, so 
customers can effectively DDoS their provider in surge conditions.

Maybe Netflix also didn't anticipate the demand, I dunno.

BobW
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