“Busy hour” or “Peak Time” Internet traffic refers to the busiest 60 minute period of the day. During this time, networks experience a steep surge in usage and traffic — they work at full force.

In 2016, Peak Time traffic increased 51%, compared to a 32% growth growth rate for average internet traffic. Between 2016 and 2021, peak time internet traffic will have increased by almost five-fold.

The gap between peak and average traffic is being further augmented by the changing composition of internet video. Real time video such as live video, ambient video, and video calling has a peak-to-average ratio that is higher than on-demand video.

At the moment, Peak Times are a huge conundrum to service providers as they are compelled to plan and invest into their network capacity according to peak traffic rather than average one.

The ever growing gap between the amount of traffic during these different times of the day translates into vast amounts of under utilized resources. After the busy hour is over, networks are left with a lot of unused capacity. This creates inefficiency problems for both Content Delivery Network (CDN) operators and service providers.

Here NOIA Network Helps in Two Ways:

1) Supporting CDN Busy Hour:

NOIA Network can provide bandwidth and storage resources for CDN’s and others as needed. During peak time traffic, CDN’s could get the needed resource support from NOIA Network participants. This would eliminate the need for building enormous capacity CDN’s that, for the most part of the day, don’t deliver the amount of traffic they’re actually capable of. With NOIA Network in place, CDN’s won’t need to plan their investment according to busy traffic rates.

2) Enabling CDN providers to utilize their unused resources:

Currently, CDN’s have enormous capacities required to serve peak times. Until CDN’s are able to fully off load their capacity requirements for serving peak times onto NOIA Network, they can utilize their existing idle resources by joining NOIA Network as a node client.

By creating more efficiency in the CDN industry (and as 71% of internet traffic will be delivered through CDN’s by 2021), NOIA Network makes the Internet way more efficient.

Thanks to NOIA Network CDN’s won’t need to overinvest in “preparation” for peak times and instead will have more resources to improve their technology that provide users with improved quality of service. Also, they will not only save money but will be able to lend their unutilized resources and earn NOIA tokens in exchange. That’s how NOIA Network supports CDN’s during Peak Times and solves the inefficiency problem created by busy hour traffic.