IETFers,
Here's your Friday afternoon bit of humor - as you all who have been
around for a while were designing this set of Tubes known as the
Internet, did you imagine that someday it might be used for 242 Gbps
of traffic related to 500,000 people joining a web collaboration
session for... Oprah's Book Club?
If you aren't aware of what I'm talking about, Oprah is hosting 10
weekly (Monday night) web collaboration sessions to discuss Eckhart
Tolle's new book "A New Earth". Over 750,000 people have signed up
and this past Monday 500,000 tried to participate and basically
crashed the system. I have some links to various posts about it here
in my blog: http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2008/03/the-oprah-
tizat.html
The statement from her company, Harpo Productions, about the event is
here: http://event.oprah.com/videochannel/ondemand/od_main.html and
I'll include this text:
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Monday night's webcast was one of the largest single online events in
the history of the Internet. More than 500,000 people simultaneously
logged on to watch Oprah Winfrey and Eckhart Tolle live, resulting in
242 Gbps of information moving through the Internet. Unfortunately,
some of our users experienced delays in viewing the webcast. We are
working to identify the specific causes for the problems experienced
and will work diligently to rectify them.
Harpo Productions, Inc., Move Networks and Limelight Networks
recognize that interactive Internet broadcasting to a mass audience
is still an emerging medium, and we're proud to have been pioneers in
pushing the industry forward.
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The plan is for the sessions to go on for the next 9 Monday nights.
So on Monday night at 9pm Eastern US at IETF-71, if anyone wants to
watch traffic patterns on the Internet, it might make for some
interesting metrics... ;-)
See you in Philly,
Dan
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Dan York, CISSP, Director of Emerging Communication Technology
Office of the CTO Voxeo Corporation dyork(_at_)voxeo(_dot_)com
Phone: +1-407-455-5859 Skype: danyork http://www.voxeo.com
Blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com http://www.disruptivetelephony.com
Bring your web applications to the phone.
Find out how at http://evolution.voxeo.com
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