[172245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: World Cup Streaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Stewart)
Sun Jun 8 13:48:51 2014
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Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 13:48:39 -0400
From: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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Thank you.
I=E2=80=99m actually based in Canada and there is a strong following of Soccer he=
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Akamai will be doing the streaming here (not sure about the US or other
countries). I have reached out to them in the past to ask questions about
anticipated volumes and they never answer with details.
Thanks,
Paul
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM
To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: World Cup Streaming
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> Sports events have their rights sold on per country basis; this leads to =
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> fragmentation of those numbers as network X has the rights for country 1,
> network Y for country 2, and they account their numbers separate even if =
they
> use the same CDN.
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> Considering Soccer (or Football as we non-US call it) is not so popular i=
n the
> US, my guess (not an estimate) is for traffic levels for the US network t=
hat
> carries the World Cup online to not be as high as Summer and/or Winter
> Olympics.=20
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> What we have pretty good educated estimates is for 2014 World Cup streami=
ng to
> Brazil to be higher in volume than what was seen in the Olympics streamin=
g to
> the US.=20
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> Rubens
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> On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> wrot=
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>> Hey folks
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>> One part of capacity planning that is always challenging at times with
>> various providers I have worked with is determining the traffic levels
>> required for upcoming events such as World Cup. Obviously there is
>> speculation and it varies dependent on the provider, their geography, an=
d
>> size of eyeball/downstream eyeball customers.
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>> Is there any resources out there other than news articles that provide f=
or a
>> reasonable estimation as to how much impact World Cup will have for exam=
ple?
>> I=E2=80=99ve heard offline from some folks that put World Cup at greater traff=
ic
>> levels than the recent Olympics for example but have no way to know if t=
hat
>> is a pure guess or an educated estimate.
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>> I am assuming that the CDN=E2=80=99s involved have some pretty accurate ideas =
on
>> what to expect but in the past I have not been able to get feedback from
>> them with any specific estimations.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Paul
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