The Managing Director (MD) of UK business ISP Fluidata, Piers Daniell, has warned that network providers are becoming "worried" about the potential increase in office internet traffic from this year's 2012 Olympic Games in London because more of the events will be watched (streamed) online than ever before.


Daniell used last week's tennis match between Djokovic and Murray (27th Jan 2012) as a smaller scale example of what can happen during such events. The match saw traffic on the Fluidata network (business centric) grow by 25% (circled in red below) as people logged onto the BBC's iPlayer video streaming service to watch from their place of work.


On the other hand we've seen concerns like this before, such as during the last FIFA World Cup, and so far most office networks have managed to avoid any serious problems. It's a similar story with consumer broadband services. Speeds can slow but so far we haven't seen any networks breakdown because of it; Football, as the country's favourite sport, is arguably a bigger test. Time will tell.