MADRID (Portaltic / EP) .- The United States Army is restricting traffic to commercial web pages up to deliver high bandwidth and making it available to the needs of Japan. Some of the sites recorded limitations are YouTube, eBay or Amazon. The earthquake disaster in Japan is making governments around the world, companies and organizations seek ways to assist the country.
Communications companies have made available their knowledge of the Japanese government to maintain communication networks in the country. The latest initiative in this direction comes from the U.S. military. The idea is to prioritize internet traffic related to Japan, as the current crisis following the tsunami has caused the demand for information and communications in the country Japan is very high.
The prioritization will be done by releasing some of the traffic as a rule have some large commercial sites. The U.S. military has a strategic operations command shall limit the amount of information on certain pages. According to CNN, the pages concerned were informed by e-mail. Among the sites that will cut its usual traffic are YouTube, Amazon, ESPN, eBay and MTV.
The spokesman for the special command that will perform this operation, Rodney Ellison, says his team has chosen the web as the level of popularity and high bandwidth that typically consume. The move will leave a larger bandwidth for military communications with Japan that can help coordinate rescue operations and reconstruction.
"This blockade will be temporary and may increase or decrease in size and scope depending on what you need," explained the military in distributed communication. At the moment there have been no complaints from the affected pages, which have taken the initiative as a solidarity contribution. 
Communications companies have made available their knowledge of the Japanese government to maintain communication networks in the country. The latest initiative in this direction comes from the U.S. military. The idea is to prioritize internet traffic related to Japan, as the current crisis following the tsunami has caused the demand for information and communications in the country Japan is very high.
The prioritization will be done by releasing some of the traffic as a rule have some large commercial sites. The U.S. military has a strategic operations command shall limit the amount of information on certain pages. According to CNN, the pages concerned were informed by e-mail. Among the sites that will cut its usual traffic are YouTube, Amazon, ESPN, eBay and MTV.
The spokesman for the special command that will perform this operation, Rodney Ellison, says his team has chosen the web as the level of popularity and high bandwidth that typically consume. The move will leave a larger bandwidth for military communications with Japan that can help coordinate rescue operations and reconstruction.
"This blockade will be temporary and may increase or decrease in size and scope depending on what you need," explained the military in distributed communication. At the moment there have been no complaints from the affected pages, which have taken the initiative as a solidarity contribution.
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