Akamai Traffic Spikes

[robert at ufl.edu (Scott, Robert D.)]

We were trying to diagnose an issue we had around 1 PM EDST, and were looking at net flow data. The data indicated a significant change in our traffic patterns, all coming from Akamai address space. The Akamai utilization graphs show a near doubling of retail traffic in the same time period that we had traffic spikes. Does anybody have any idea what caused such a major surge in traffic? 

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/charts.html

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