RE: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of trafficfor Oprah's Book Club webinars?

["Tony Hain" <alh-ietf at tndh.net>]

Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
> The problem with multicast in this application is that it only works if
> all the clients are accepting the same data stream and viewing it live.
> 
> That's not how people tend to view Web video, there might be 50% of the
> crowd watching it as Oprah speaks but the rest are likely to be time
> shifted from a few secs to hours or even days.

You clearly don't understand the point of this event. There were 500k+
wanting to simultaneously watch it live. The other 250k+ that signed up
would be watching a time shifted replay. Due to the problems, significantly
more people ended up doing the time shifted version than had intended to. 

Tony




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