Your Cox Cable connection may be slowing down

Your internet traffic could be slowed. Cox just announced a significant update to its data management policies. Cox is laying out plans to test a data management system next month that will give priority to Internet traffic it judges to be time-sensitive. Things like web pages, streaming video and online games. Things like "file downloads, software updates and other non-time ...

The Presidential Inauguration breaks the internet

Too many simultaneous streams caused many people not to be able to see the President Obama's Inauguration real-time. CNN.com served a record 21.3 million streams, with a peak of 1.3 million simultaneous streams. Akamai which provides Web Application Acceleration and Performance Management reported a peak of 5.4 million simultaneous visitors per minute to the various news sites that it ...