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The Bandwidth Bottleneck that Is Throttling the Internet


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Credit: Richard Wilkinson

On 19 June, several hundred thousand US fans of the television drama Game of Thrones went online to watch an eagerly awaited episode—and triggered a partial failure in the channel's streaming service. Some 15,000 customers were left to rage at blank screens for more than an hour.

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