OSHEAN eCurrent Fall 2019 | Page 30

Celebrating the Last Decade of Innovation Looking Back Ten Years of the eCurrent We started publishing the eCurrent in 2009, 10 years into OSHEAN’s history. In honor of our 20th anniversary this year, we took a look back through the past issues and pulled some interesting stories that help illustrate just how far technology has come in the past decade. We hope you enjoy the trip down memory lane! Technology, commented that during the impact on their networks. Our robust network inauguration, the OSHEAN Core set a was able to handle the surge in demand, and we record for the highest traffic levels since the delivered this increased traffic at no additional inception of OSHEAN 10 years ago. “It was cost to our members. While this was truly a a historical day at OSHEAN! The network historic day, we feel it is a harbinger of things utilization reached a peak of 2.2 Gigabits to come as more people turn to video on the today, an addition of 800 Megabits, due to Internet as their medium of choice.” Check out some of our favorite stories and click to see the original! the online streaming of the Presidential Inauguration.” On an average work day, — 2009 bandwidth use generally consumes 1.4 “The Obama Effect” Gigabits. OSHEAN also provided members with access to a multicast feed of C-SPAN For many reasons, the 2009 Presidential surprising that millions of viewers hit the web Inauguration of Barack H. Obama marked an to stream Tuesday’s ceremonies, resulting in amazing moment in American history, including the highest amount of bandwidth consumption “Our traffic load nearly doubled as President the event bringing the largest amount of traffic across the nation ever! Obama raised his right hand to take the oath of ever to the Internet. As this was the first truly This online trend held true in Rhode Island internet-driven presidential race, it was not as well. Tim Rue, OSHEAN Director of 30 | 2019 eCURRENT via Internet2. Inauguration Day Bandwidth Utilization – OSHEAN Core • Sprint - 400 Mbps • Cogent - 950 Mbps • WilTel/Level 3 - 300Mbps • Internet2 CPS (Commodity Peering Service) - 550 Mbps office,” said George Loftus, President and CEO of OSHEAN. “Yet our members felt no negative Total 2.2 Gigabits Per Second, Inauguration Day Stronger Together | 31