Trefor Davies, Chief Technology Officer at Timico, commented:

"The early daytime matches saw an increase of about 70% in video streaming to 170% of normal. The biggest surge was during the afternoon of the England v Slovenia match on June 23 where we saw a 357% increase in streaming, with global content delivery network Akamai reporting that the UK represented 22% of their global traffic.

Even with such high demands on bandwidth, Timico’s business-to-business traffic stayed at 100%, our customers commented that their video streaming was excellent, plus we saw 12% more data carried on our network through this extremely ‘internet busy’ period. Overall we seemed to have coped extremely well with the experience, though not without some hard work from our highly skilled Network Operations team.

The London 2012 Olympics has the potential to put the World Cup in the shade, at least in the UK. There is going to be even more media hype surrounding the event and it is all going to be happening during the day, meaning more people will be going online to watch and keep track of Team GB’s progress."