Covid created "a year’s worth of traffic growth in just a few weeks," says Nokia

By John Bugailiskis DESPITE EXPERIENCING THE equivalent of a “year’s traffic growth in just a few weeks,” after Covid lockdowns went into effect, IP networks around the world were able to handle the strain. This, according to the “Nokia Deepfield Network Intelligence Report: Networks in 2020” which draws on data recorded by network service providers in Europe, North America and Latin America between February and September 2020. Launched out of Michigan in 2011, Deepfield was a privately held company that provided real-time big data analytics to clients around their IP network performance and security, insights that can also help identify...