COVID-19's Impact On Network And Compute Hardware
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- Author: Admin
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Psychz Networks
- August 21,2020
The lockdown induced due to the Covid-19 situation has changed the face of daily operations globally across all the domains and businesses. Many businesses and individuals are working or learning from home because online usage has risen significantly. Internet traffic has increased from 3% (average growth) to 30% in just five months. The average peak traffic went up from 97 Tbps to 177 Tbps, and the sustained daily traffic rate is higher than last year's peak for June. (Source: Akamai)
What are the users doing Online?
Users are streaming more and more online media each day, and are on seemingly endless hours of video conferences for work and school. Due to the halt of all sorts of entertainment and outdoor activity, people are switching to online media for social connection. Online streaming channels, social media sites, e-commerce businesses, online gaming, and video chatting platforms are some of the domains that have seen a steep rise in user base and online activity in the last few months. From schools to doctors' appointments, more aspects of our daily lives have moved online due to coronavirus. Millions of the users are now connecting to the internet from their kitchens, living rooms, and home offices every day – causing some internet service providers (ISPs) to see demand skyrocket.
- More people started using video conferencing software to deal with work-related day to day activities. Microsoft had to raise the limit from 10,000 to 100,000 users in one meeting. In the U.S. alone. (Source: Microsoft)
- Stay at home entertainment mediums (Over The Top OTT) are booming because of the rise of demand for home entertainment (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Crunchy Roll, etc.)
- A record number is that people are using online gaming platforms to connect with friends and kill time. The global video game market reaches a new high by doing business worth $159 billion in 2020, which is around four times movie industry revenues (estimated $43 billion in 2019) and almost three times music industry revenues ($57 billion in 2019).
- Online grocery shopping has never seen a surge so high where they are unable to handle customers waiting online to place orders.
Growth chart (Before and after COVID)
How is Psychz Networks helping their customers
Our network has performed brilliantly during the sudden rise in bandwidth usage because of global lockdown during the pandemic, delivering more than 400Gbps to our clients. With the increasing demand for the current time and businesses, our mission is to provide a reliable and robust infrastructure to our customers so they can focus all their efforts on solving their critical business problems. Our scalable network provides our clients with the strength to hold the fort firmly while their business demands continue to increase in 2020. Our infrastructure and Network engineers have played a vital role in setting up a stable network environment that could easily withstand the sudden surge in traffic and bandwidth demand and scale up the infrastructure in minutes to meet the clients' requirements. Clients that focus on media such as instant messaging apps, video streaming, and online gaming were the first to see this sudden rise in demand. Our network team ensured to offer immediate assistance by scaling up their network requirements, setting up and deploying additional nodes in just a few minutes. Our clients quickly moved from regular 1Gbps port to 10Gbps (Fiber) ports for higher performance. In some cases, clients were setup with 20Gbps ports to handle the high bandwidth requirements.
At Psychz, we understand that high bandwidth usage can lead to high monthly hosting bills. Therefore, we are working with both current and potential clients to provide them with the most cost-effective plan for high bandwidth usage. We are helping clients move from metered to unmetered bandwidth while keeping their bandwidth costs as low as possible. Also, we have made the transition process as smooth as possible for clients who wish to migrate from large cloud providers to our bare metal or colocation offerings.
We understand things are changing very quickly in this post-COVID world, and we are doing everything possible to ensure our clients are getting all the tools necessary to stay online. Our goal is to continue to work with our clients on an individual basis and understand their needs. We promise to maintain our focus on cost savings, network resiliency, and the best user experience.
