Comey Testimony Was Latest Peak in Video-Streaming Traffic, Akamai Says
Former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony last week drew online viewing, generating "a massive peak" of 2.5 Tbps of livestreaming video traffic on the Akamai platform on a workday, blogged Shane Keats, director-industry marketing, media and entertainment. Akamai said…
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Tuesday the peak was three to seven times higher than typical non-event day traffic peaks. Pointing to daytime peaks also being set during the Rio Olympic Games and U.S. presidential inauguration, it "expect[s] to see more records being broken."