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Net traffic explodes for NASA'S comet collision
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Fri Jul 8 15:31:00 2005
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:54:59 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I hope many of you saw this near- real-time. It was awsome.
Roy Mark writes for internetnews.com:
[snip]
Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet
Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic
to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. The hyper-speed
demise of the ship's probe, as it smashed into a comet
half the size of Manhattan, generated approximately 80
million page views.
"It's off the scale," Brian Dunbar, NASA's Internet
Services Manager, told internetnews.com, noting the
previous traffic record was 30 million page views for
the Mars landing in 2004. "Hands down, it was a record
day."
[snip]
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3517721
Pretty cool stuff. :-)
- ferg
ps. We should also be aware of how far AOL has come, too,
since the 1996 Victoria's Secret fashion show. From every
report, they pulled off streaming 7 simulateous video feeds
of the Live 8 concerts this past weekend without any substantial
problems whatsoever.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050705/ap_en_bu/internet_video_performs
Time they are a'changin'.
--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
