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: > -------- > 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. > -------- > > 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 > > -- > Dan York, CISSP, Director of Emerging Communication Technology > Office of the CTO Voxeo Corporation dyork@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:dyork@xxxxxxxxx> > Phone: +1-407-455-5859 Skype: danyork http://www.voxeo.com > Blogs: http://blogs.voxeo.com http://www.disruptivetelephony.com > > Bring your web applications to the phone. > Find out how at http://evolution.voxeo.com > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > IETF mailing list > IETF@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf