[115774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Wed Jul 8 16:47:40 2009
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
To: "Eric Kujawski" <ekujawski@softlayer.com>
In-Reply-To: <E71063828F7CA54BA88A9A44B85785D10E2DEAA0@slmail01.softlayer.local>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 16:46:28 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Eric Kujawski wrote:
> Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during
> the event.
>
> Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
>
> Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average
> across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live
> streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
>
Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Limelight (@lunk18 on twitter) says
Set new traffic record today. MJ's funeral topped Obama's
inauguration. Go figure... Follow @llnw for more stats later...
Those "more stats" are as yet not available.
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
email : tme@americafree.tv
twitter : @TMEubanks
Cut the Cord with AmericaFree.TV
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
> To: Shon Elliott
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
>
> Shon Elliott wrote:
>> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
>> Jackson effected
>> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
>> traffic day to
>> most of the people I've talked to.
>
> We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
> through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
> bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something
> you'd give out free over the Internet.
>
>
> Jack
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