Traffic on Akamai’s intelligent edge platform reached 106 Tbps week commencing 21st October 2019, beating the 100 Tbps mark for the first time in the company’s 20-year history.

This is “roughly the same as downloading 3,300 two-hour HD movies every second, or nearly 12 million an hour,” Akamai’s Executive Vice President and General Manager, Media and Carrier, Adam Karon, wrote in a blog post.

The traffic peak was largely driven by a popular video game update along with “the staggering amount of other content and data delivered at the same time” across the platform, Karon said.

Akamai’s traffic exceeded 1 Tbps for the first time in 2008 and just late last year the company announced it eclipsed 70 Tbps, thanks to a combination of live sports events, gaming releases and major software updates along with elevated e-commerce activity. Akamai said the platform now reaches daily peaks of 50 Tbps.

ITogether regularly visits the London Soho offices of Akamai and you can see real time network throughput on the screens there and we can vouch for these numbers ! Akamai also has more than double this capacity available should it be needed. Akamai is the by far the largest consumer of Internet bandwidth (transit) in the world.

Akamai delivers some of the largest online events the world has ever seen.