[115793] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Van Tol)
Thu Jul 9 08:26:53 2009
From: Eric Van Tol <eric@atlantech.net>
To: 'Craig Labovitz' <labovit@arbor.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:26:35 -0400
In-Reply-To: <8F7A5C26-159B-4A2A-8468-C418B7D61699@arbor.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Labovitz [mailto:labovit@arbor.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:10 AM
> To: Shon Elliott
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
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> It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but
> not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
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> A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with
> the daily average:
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=3D0
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> - Craig
Our traffic was doubled for MJ, actually 1/3 *more* than Obama. However, w=
e're regional to DC, so I can only imagine that since the inauguration was =
a huge local event, many of our customers were either working from home tha=
t day or actually there and not watching it on the internet. =20
-evt