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Submitted by benton on Sat, 09/12/2020 - 14:39Streaming Explodes During Pandemic, But No System Overload
Akamai Technologies maintains a major international content delivery network. Alex Balford, Akamai’s senior manager for media product marketing, said, “Traffic increased 30% between the end of February and end of March, 10 times greater than the normal month-to-month growth rate that we normally see. To put that into perspective, we saw roughly a year’s worth of growth in a month’s time frame.” In addition to sharply increased traffic, Balford noted something else about COVID-19 data traffic.