The increase in sustained Internet traffic brought about by coronavirus lockdown measures has led to speculation infrastructure might crumble under the burden.
Although cloud-based services (such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams) have experienced outages – likely as a result of increased traffic – and broadband providers have suffered blips in service, the UK is yet to experience significant downtime outside of usual margins.
TechRadar Pro spoke to network monitoring firm ThousandEyes about the performance of UK Internet infrastructure, the challenges facing internet service providers (ISPs) and how the pandemic might affect Internet services going forward.
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