Some may have to settle for audio, which is much less demanding of bandwidth.
Separately, Sen.
The core of the
“The core of the network is massively over-provisioned,” said
But if parents are videoconferencing for work at the same time college and high school students are trying to beam into school, they could experience congestion. Figure a packet-dropping threshold of five or more users. That's because the so-called last mile is for most Americans provisioned for cable — download capacity is robust but upload limited. Fiber optic connections don't have the same issues and will do fine.
Italy’s internet saw a 30% spike in peak-hour traffic early this past week after the government sent everyone home into isolation, said
Peak internet usage times in nations where work has shifted from the office to home due to COVID-19 have also shifted — from about dinner time to about
Traffic has spiked 10% to 20% during peak hours since the first week of February in greater
The sudden, unanticipated surge in millions of remote workers has forced companies to scramble to boost their capacity for secure connections through virtual private networks, said
The surge is creating some temporary bottlenecks. But because so much of computing has moved to cloud services, the shift doesn’t pose much of an on-site burden for companies, said Sullivan, with bottlenecks typically cleared in minutes or hours.
But some conference calling and chat services have been overwhelmed.
A call-in press conference arranged by
Brown’s office said in a news release that the cause was the large number of people using the tele-meeting call center and that "similar issues and demand are being reported across the country."
The conference call worked the third time.
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