Internet traffic is surging as more companies require their employees to telework. And that resulting in strained networks and outages for some video conferencing services.
Cities including San Francisco are telling residents to stay home, contributing to increased use of video chats and other online communications.Cities including San Francisco are telling residents to stay home, contributing to increased use of video chats and other online communications.More people are shifting to the digital world as life outside the home is put on hold.
"They shifted to doing more online chat, more video streaming, which almost doubled in those in those countries," said Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure and security company.Visits to news sites went up as much as 60%. And people are spending more time playing online games.
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