Thank you. I’m actually based in Canada and there is a strong following of Soccer here :)
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 <rube...@gmail.com> Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM To: Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org> Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: World Cup Streaming > > Sports events have their rights sold on per country basis; this leads to some > 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. > > Considering Soccer (or Football as we non-US call it) is not so popular in the > US, my guess (not an estimate) is for traffic levels for the US network that > carries the World Cup online to not be as high as Summer and/or Winter > Olympics. > > What we have pretty good educated estimates is for 2014 World Cup streaming to > Brazil to be higher in volume than what was seen in the Olympics streaming to > the US. > > Rubens > > > > > > > > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Paul Stewart <p...@paulstewart.org> wrote: >> Hey folks >> >> 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, and >> size of eyeball/downstream eyeball customers. >> >> Is there any resources out there other than news articles that provide for a >> reasonable estimation as to how much impact World Cup will have for example? >> I’ve heard offline from some folks that put World Cup at greater traffic >> levels than the recent Olympics for example but have no way to know if that >> is a pure guess or an educated estimate. >> >> I am assuming that the CDN’s 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. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul >> >> >> >
