Talking about the new phenomenon called Fortnite, the Global Director, Media Industry Strategy at Akamai, Nelson Rodriguez stated that the company witnessed a massive influx of traffic driven by the launch of the Season 5 Epic Games’ Fortnite on Thursday, July 12th, 2018.
The online game is driving new records for peak traffic and downloads. for the peak level of traffic delivered for a single video game on its network, at more than 37 Tbps peak across all platforms. This level of traffic would be like downloading the average mobile game 2.8 million times per minute.