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The heavy traffic is due to sports events - champions league last-16 matchday live streaming: Bayern Munich vs. Liverpool, FC Barcelona vs Olympique Lyon. The h

by ce4 8y ago

The heavy traffic is due to sports events - champions league last-16 matchday live streaming: Bayern Munich vs. Liverpool, FC Barcelona vs Olympique Lyon. The heatmap matches the clubs' home countries UK, Germany, France & Spain quite well. Dont conflate that with fb/insta problems.

why-el 8y ago
Indeed. The games are streamed like crazy! Lots of streams are in HD.
- ce4 8y ago
  Yep, the actual bandwidth consumption is mindblowing :)
  - pferde 8y ago
    Multicast was designed exactly for this - same data streamed to many endpoints at the same time. Too bad it's not being more widely used, the bandwidth savings would likely be huge.