10 years ago I would have thought audiences of this scale or larger
would be supported with multicast...
joelja
Dan York wrote:
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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