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Facts tagged with H1n1

If the H1N1 swine-flu pandemic arrives this fall… emergency planners say that school-age children and telecommuting adults could be accessing the network simultaneously, potentially overloading the public Internet’s capacity.

Research Area: Broadband Traffic

Tags: broadband traffic, telework, swine flu, h1n1, remote access

Matthew Rivera, “Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?” Wall Street Journal Digits [blog]. October 2, 2009.

In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security published a report studying the effects that a pandemic could have on the Internet at large, and on telecommuting adults in particular. The report said that 90% of the telecommuting population would experience slowdowns or blackouts when accessing the Internet.

Research Area: Telework

Tags: broadband traffic, telework, h1n1, epidemic

Matthew Rivera, “Could Swine Flu Take the Internet Down?” Wall Street Journal Digits [blog]. October 2, 2009.

H1N1 videos on CDC.gov have gotten about 100,000 page views, but the same videos on YouTube got 2.01 million views.

Research Area: Health Care

Tags: health care, youtube, online video, twitter, cdc, flu season, h1n1

Mitch Wagner, “CDC Readies Internet Barrage To Combat Swine Flu,” InformationWeek. August 24, 2009.

H1N1 videos on CDC.gov have gotten about 100,000 page views, but the same videos on YouTube got 2.01 million views.

Research Area: Health Care

Tags: health care, youtube, online video, twitter, cdc, flu season, h1n1

Mitch Wagner, “CDC Readies Internet Barrage To Combat Swine Flu,” InformationWeek. August 24, 2009.
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