Valve is upgrading its network infrastructure with 100Gbps Internet ports due to growth in the amount of traffic it handles.
According to a report by Ars Technica, Level 3 Communications handles Valve’s bandwidth needs – which largely stem from its PC gaming platform Steam.
Steam’s traffic is growing at 75% year-on-year, according to the report, handling between 450 to 500 petabytes (500,000TB) of data per month.
Steam has over 100 million users, and averages more than 10 million concurrent players per day.
This article originally appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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If only telkom and eskom took note of the growth and demand in our country like steam took note of its users demand and growth. im sure we would have way better services.
but since a bunch of non-educated people are in charge…well yeah!