NC Japan, an online gaming company, was tasked with providing episode updates for “Chronicle” and “Chronicle 2” respectively in June and December of 2004. A massive surge in concurrent connections was expected. They were concerned that NC Japan’s systems and networks were not sufficient to respond to this many connections and that adding more networks or servers, just for the temporary surge, would not be a good idea in terms of cost and operation. NC Japan came to CDNetworks for help. CDNetworks network infrastructure and CDN services have helped NC Japan maintain the download speed of patch files during traffic spikes. These downloads occur at almost the same speed as “normal” traffic download times, while providing significant savings compared to the cost of provisioning additional systems and networks. The level of users’ satisfaction with the download speed has substantially improved as well.