Some states are opening up and that means we're seeing a shift in broadband traffic patterns (again). To get a handle on what's happening, we follow up with Plume CMO Todd Grantham.

Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief

May 8, 2020

Podcast: How broadband traffic patterns change as the world works from home

In this podcast episode, recorded late last week, we check in again with Plume CMO Todd Grantham to discuss the increase in streaming media and entertainment usage and other traffic patterns emerging as some states back off COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.

In our last conversation, Grantham had some advice for service providers and said that we're definitely not done seeing the shifts in traffic patterns at home. Let's find out what changed and why by digging into Plume's Work From Home dashboard.

Listen to the podcast below, or subscribe and download it from Google Play, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud or Spotify.

In case you missed it, here's the podcast audio from April, where Grantham and I discussed how Plume gets its data, how many devices it can "see" in its network and what the earlier traffic patterns told us as various cities observed stay-at-home orders:

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If you'd like to bookmark it, I blogged about that conversation over on Broadband World News, Light Reading's sister site.

Special thanks to Avast for being our podcast sponsor.

Phil Harvey, Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

About the Author(s)

Phil Harvey

Editor-in-Chief, Light Reading

Phil Harvey has been a Light Reading writer and editor for more than 18 years combined. He began his second tour as the site's chief editor in April 2020.

His interest in speed and scale means he often covers optical networking and the foundational technologies powering the modern Internet.

Harvey covered networking, Internet infrastructure and dot-com mania in the late 90s for Silicon Valley magazines like UPSIDE and Red Herring before joining Light Reading (for the first time) in late 2000.

After moving to the Republic of Texas, Harvey spent eight years as a contributing tech writer for D CEO magazine, producing columns about tech advances in everything from supercomputing to cellphone recycling.

Harvey is an avid photographer and camera collector – if you accept that compulsive shopping and "collecting" are the same.

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