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

2008-03-10 Thread Greg Shepherd
Patrik Fältström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 06:49 AM Pacific Standard Time > To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip > Cc: Jeroen Massar; IETF discussion list > Subject: Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps > of trafficfor

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

2008-03-10 Thread Tony Hain
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 r

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

2008-03-09 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
(www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Patrik Fältström [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 06:49 AM Pacific Standard Time To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip Cc: Jeroen Massar; IETF discussion list Subject:Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242

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

2008-03-09 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 8 mar 2008, at 21.18, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > 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. As others have said, this time 500k people (o

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

2008-03-09 Thread Dan York
On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:18 PM, 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

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

2008-03-08 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jeroen Massar > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 5:43 PM > To: Patrik Fältström > Cc: IETF discussion list > Subject: Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle > 242 Gbps of trafficf