NTAC Peering Working Group

[Darrell Newcomb <>]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 4:08 PM, David Farmer wrote:
> FYI, our local Akamai node usually runs about 2.5G and was doing about 5G 
> from noon to 4:00pm and has been tapering off for a couple hours now but 
> still more than double for the time of day.  The local exchange point here 
> in Minneapolis has an Akamai operated node and saw a similar spike.  Our 
> Campus wireless when from about 1G, which is fairly typical, just before 
> noon to 1.75G just after the noon hour.  Man those bit were flying through 
> the air. :)

If you could hear them ... our ears would hurt.  :-D

Would be rather interesting for those with measurement covering both kinds of 
connectivity for the same user-populate (but especially if can correlate 
specific users)... to see how many normally "wireless" clients moved to wired 
during periods like this.  Probably a decent lightening talk in that.  
Presumably they move either because of natural daily cycles and on days like 
this,  because they know the download on wired will be faster, and/or they 
got fed-up with wireless that day and moved to wired connections (bonus 
points for large enough populations of people and varied enough wifi 
capabilities/load to see if those were apparent factors in the behavior 
change).