Akamai: Obama inauguration sets web traffic record

According to Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN) provider, the inauguration of Obama has set a record number of 7 million data streams, the majority of which are live streams. This compares against an average of just a million simultaneous data streams handled by the company's global network of more than 30,000 servers. 

Indeed, Akamai says its peak overall traffic rate surpassed 2 terabits per second at 12:15 pm on the day of the inauguration. This is a very impressive figure, given that giant scale DDoS attacks of just 20 to 40 gigabits per second was sufficient to take entire ISPs and datacenters off the grid just a couple of years ago.

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