Finally! Local Traffic Remained Local
During a recent broadcast of an Italian Series A Championship football match, something extraordinary was happening behind the scenes. Local Internet traffic remained local. Cristiano Zanforlin, Chief Commercial Officer of Milan Internet Exchange (MIX), Flavio Luciani, Chief Technology Officer of Consorzio Namex, and Luca Cicchelli, Interconnection Manager of Consorzio TOP-IX, explain how Italian IXPs helped make that happen.
Saturday, March 6th 2021.
The football match in the Italian Serie A Championship between Juventus and Lazio is broadcast on television both via satellite and the Internet, as it is common these days.
What happened to Internet traffic while this event was taking place?