Hi
I can't be the only one watching world cup final on my roku espn app and wonder how many TBps is ESPN pushing right now. It would be interesting to see people who can share some network stats on their ISPs / IXPs. This very well be one of the biggest watched via Internet event of all the times.
Mehmet
The Argentina semi-final on Thursday had us at about 300% of our regular daytime peaks; other preceding games were closer to about 200%. We don't have any residential connections, just business, so today's (weekend) game didn't really register much.
In terms of other streamed events: The men's hockey final in the Winter Olympics beat this pretty soundly for our stats, at about 500% of regular daytime peaks...but then again, we have a Canadian market after all! The streaming in both cases was through CBC via Akamai, coming in over a combination of Akamai peering and caches.
Hi
I can't be the only one watching world cup final on my roku espn app and
wonder how many TBps is ESPN pushing right now. It would be interesting to
see people who can share some network stats on their ISPs / IXPs. This very
well be one of the biggest watched via Internet event of all the times.
Mehmet
http://www.akamai.com/worldcup
Yes, the wold cup has been a huge event for access networks.
MSO in the US, traffic from Akamai (who delivers the ESPN traffic) was up
about 30% vs. last Sunday at the same time. Overall it was kind of
negligible. It wasn't as high as it was for the USA vs. Germany match
since that one was during the week and not after working hours. I imagine
the majority of people just watched it on their TV and the Akamai stats
for today would seem to indicate the same.
I did stream the second half while sitting at Starbucks.
Phil
Here's some detailed analysis with many graphs showing the inferences with various matches and bandwidth.
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/internet-traffic-during-the-world-cup-2014
- Jared