[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Internet is hefty

[Stephen Quatrano]

It’ll be a problem if “working from home” means “watching Netflix”.  It might also be a problem if “working from home” means “endless meetings” and “always-on video conferencing.”  On the other hand, if people are actually doing work, well, not so much.

You get my point.  It’s about bandwidth.  I believe that about 80% of all Internet traffic is already video.   Texting, email, web, and even FB is essentially noise with respect to these volumes…

SQ

> On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:52 AM, <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:
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> A number of folks have asked whether the internet can handle the surge in volume seen during the last week or two.  Consensus appears to be maybe/probably.  Here are a few recent articles
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> https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/will-coronavirus-break-internet-highly-unlikely-says-cloudflare <https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/uptime/will-coronavirus-break-internet-highly-unlikely-says-cloudflare>
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-broadband-internet-work-from-home.html?auth=login-facebook <https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-broadband-internet-work-from-home.html?auth=login-facebook>
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> https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-internet-was-built-to-withstand-a-nuclear-bomb-it-will <https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/the-internet-was-built-to-withstand-a-nuclear-bomb-it-will>
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> https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/tech/internet-infrastructure-coronavirus/index.html <https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/tech/internet-infrastructure-coronavirus/index.html>
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> The bottom line in my view is that the experts are not sure, but think it can.   And of course this is somewhat geography-dependent
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> On Monday I tried to get onto the Met Opera to watch Carmen and could not.  THEIR server was apparently flooded.  Later on it was fine.
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> John
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> John Rudy
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