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The use of the network has doubled, the zoom has not withstood the load: this is how the Corona changed the Internet in Israel - Walla! news

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Professionals describe a dramatic increase in network traffic since the outbreak of the global epidemic, claiming that Israel has reached the current crisis "with an infrastructure that is largely unsuitable for the nature of consumption and the significant increase in consumption." Another surprising factor has recently joined the load: the Fortnight update


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The use of the network has doubled, the zoom has not withstood the load: this is how the Corona changed the Internet in Israel

Professionals describe a dramatic increase in network traffic since the outbreak of the global epidemic, claiming that Israel has reached the current crisis "with an infrastructure that is largely unsuitable for the nature of consumption and the significant increase in consumption."

Another surprising factor has recently joined the load: the Fortnight update

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In the video: The auditor refers to the interim report on the corona crisis (Photo: State Comptroller's Office, edited by: Assaf Drori)

For more than half a year now, the education system has been intermittently disabled and most of the learning has been done remotely.

Thus, many high-tech companies have also moved to remote work.

While there are some advantages to being able to work from home, maintain social distance and prevent as many people as possible - it also has quite a few disadvantages, which are reflected in, for example, the load on our Internet infrastructure.



For example, in a home where you study zoom and also work on a standard Internet infrastructure, it is doubtful whether it will be possible to have the conversations continuously and without interruptions.

This is a persistent omission resulting from the deployment of fiber optics stuck in regulation that has only recently begun to be released, i.e .: too late.

While in the first closure, traffic to services and sites such as Netflix, YouTube and others was restricted, it seems that this time no similar restriction was decided upon.

How did the corona crisis, and especially the second closure, affect the functioning of the Internet infrastructure?

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"See more online activity."

Teacher teaches Zoom class, April (Photo: Flash 90)

According to Adv. Yoram HaCohen, CEO of the Israeli Internet Association, following the outbreak of the global corona crisis at the end of 2019, network traffic within Israel has doubled.

"We are looking at internal data, that is, largely Israeli users' surfing for Israeli resources. There has been an increase since the beginning of the crisis, meaning since December, we have doubled the amount of traffic passing through the interchange (Interchange IIX of the Internet Association that measures traffic within Israel - ml) .

"On the order of 80 GB per second at the peak, we are now at 160 GB," said Hacohen.



According to Hacohen, there was no significant difference in the traffic data between the two quarantine periods. It was relatively identical, "he says." We do not analyze inward, but only in volumes of sizes.

This is an increase that happened at the beginning of the year and of course got direction with the onset of the crisis.

It definitely is.

If the landmark is the end of 2019, then today we are on a 100% increase in traffic. "

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A senior in the Internet infrastructure industry says the first closure had a greater impact on traffic than the second closure.

“The first closure had a more significant effect than the second closure,” the senior says.

"I did not feel any unusual loads in the first closure, and certainly not in the second closure. In fact, we did not feel anything in terms of traffic outside Israel."



However, another, lateral occurrence has actually had a very significant impact on traffic congestion in recent days.

"The most groundbreaking event in the last three years in terms of the load on the Internet was actually the update to 'Fortnight' a few days ago," says the senior, noting that the loads were felt by all Internet providers in Israel, "without exception."

He said, "This is a 22 GB file that is being downloaded at the same time in the State of Israel by one and a half million children. There is no example of this. Apple does the same thing but is rated, so it does not block any network," he added.



However, the corona crisis had additional effects in this area, for example on the online business activity.

According to Adv. Hacohen, the crisis led to an increase in the registration of Internet addresses (domains). "This means that the population understood that the transition to digital is important and people actually understood that they must be there," he says. "This indicates that people have internalized the message that there should be digital. Pretty beautiful.

Overall, we see more activity on the Internet, which is pretty clear. "

The usage model has changed

Still, it is still difficult to make two zoom calls in parallel, and part of the problem lies in Bezeq's slow infrastructure, which runs on copper cables.

However, the senior communications official emphasizes that the closure has put the infrastructure in an extreme situation, which is difficult to prepare for.

"Although when everything goes back to normal, online consumption will still be higher, and some of the courses will be online, but that's not what it is now. It's not a representative example, and you will never be prepared for it."



"There is no place in the world with perfect infrastructure," the senior tells us.

"Twenty years ago the speed was 50k and increased to 100k, so for a year there was a perfect world. Consumption has not yet scratched the capacity. But you see what happens, they give you 1GB so this year it's amazing, and the year after that as consumption goes up, "One gigabyte at home is not enough, so you need more. But once you have deployed a fiber, that is, you have reached the maximum. The next step will only be to replace a communication cabinet or a switch. In terms of infrastructure, you can even offer 1 tera."



He says, "As the uses catch up with the technological gap, you 'come out of heaven' and then replace the boxes and for a year or two it stops and once again it's over. The internet rules you never to be in paradise for a long time: it's temporary. "Home - then in the next year or two you will enjoy the freeway, but in two more years there will be a new use of 3D or virtual reality, which consumes a thousand times, then your pipe will be clogged, and then they will have to change boxes."

"The load due to the update has been felt by all ISPs, without exception."

A boy plays Fortnight (Photo: ShutterStock)

The priest also points to the gap between demand and what infrastructure can offer.

"The big problem of the State of Israel is in the section between the user citizen, and the Internet access provider. Because then most of the traffic in Israel goes over Bezeq's ADSL, and it has very old technology. So whoever has fiber at home of course has no problem, and really what "It happens that people find that they have to go and provide another Internet infrastructure, which is actually a hotspot mobile - and actually uses the cellular infrastructure because the physical infrastructure is not good enough," he says.



During the Corona period, he said, this gap was particularly felt.

Hacohen says that Israel has reached the current crisis "with an infrastructure that is largely unsuitable for the nature of consumption and a significant increase in consumption", as well as a change in the consumption model, where, he said, "you do not just need information from the Internet - but suddenly become a producer of information.

"He, too, has political considerations."

Handel (Photo: Adina Wallman, Knesset Spokeswoman)

However, the deployment of fiber optics is expected to allow in Israel unprecedented internet speeds.

The move led by the Ministry of Communications should include the establishment of a fund that will set priorities for deployment in Israel, which will force the various companies to invest even in areas where retirement is not necessarily economic.

However, the Internet Union warns against politicization that it will tarnish the process.



"The Ministry of Communications, with Yoaz Handel and Liran Avishar Ben-Horin, the director general of the ministry, is moving and pushing forward," says Adv. Hacohen.

He said they "are opening the traffic jams and they see efforts to resolve traffic jams that have prevented the deployment of the fiber, but not all of these moves can be sure to have positive results, and some also have dangerous potential - such as infrastructure politicization".



He called for the establishment of a public council to run the fund to prevent political decisions.

"Handel may have come up with good intentions, but it is not certain that he will be the communications minister in a while, and in the end he also has political considerations."

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