New record for traffic over Openreach network on Sunday 11th December 2022
The internet did not melt down and the core network of fibre seems to have coped with a new record volume of traffic across the Openreach network on Sunday 11th December 2021.
The new record of 229 PetaBytes of data transferred during the day is 7 PetaBytes higher than the previous record set on Sunday 5th December 2021, so a year and a week ago.
This is traffic across the Openreach network so includes a mixture of technologies such as VDSL2, G.fast and FTTP and a large group of ISP the largest of which are BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen Internet.
That the new record was set a year after the previous record and on the same day of the week hints that it this was a combination of a cold short day and people streaming more content than usual and perhaps lots of frantic hunting around online shopping sites for presents.
One PetaByte is 1000 TeraBytes with a TerraByte being 1000 GigaBytes. Still trying to work out how many double decker buses this is equivalent to.
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It doesn't, no. GEA only.
I'm wondering is this also includes leased lines?