Inauguration streaming traffic

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We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?

2

Yes, pretty well everyone else. :slight_smile:

3

Yes, close to double normal traffic here in south-west Ontario, Canada.

         ---Mike

4

We are seeing about 150% increase in traffic as well.

-Patrick

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:We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing
:almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?

We're seeing traffic levels nearly 2x normal. On 9/11/01, we were
probably only about 50% higher than the norm. Of course, lots has
changed, so that's probably not a fair comparison.

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Jay Hennigan wrote:

We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?

Ditto. I'm suddenly glad we paid for that "burstable" option :slight_smile:

David Smith
MVN.net

7

Yep, most seems to be port 8247. Which seems to be CNN streaming
service.

And yay for the p2p options now in flash... nothing like that to make it
look like a comp'd system/attack.

--Harry

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As an aside... thanks to BBC for streaming this, I couldn't find
another source that wasn't overloaded/jerky/ugly :frowning:

Thanks Brandon.

-Chris

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BitGravity did a great job.

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We're seeing more TCP1935 than UDP8247.

http://ct-mail.cites.uiuc.edu/~hardenrm/graphs/Peakflow-1.png

/Ryan

Harry Hoffman wrote:

Yep, most seems to be port 8247. Which seems to be CNN streaming
service.

And yay for the p2p options now in flash... nothing like that to make it
look like a comp'd system/attack.

--Harry

We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing
almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?

We are seeing about 150% increase in traffic as well.

-Patrick

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Peering sessions to Limelight tripled in downstream today. No problems, just a lot of traffic. Total aggregate into our network nearly doubled, but we service a lot of SMB and government agencies in the DC area, most of which had today off or telecommuted.

-evt

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>
> We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing
> almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone
else?
>
> --
> Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
> Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/
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Peering sessions to Limelight tripled in downstream today. No
problems, just a lot of traffic. Total aggregate into our network
nearly doubled, but we service a lot of SMB and government agencies in
the DC area, most of which had today off or telecommuted.

-evt

Port 1935 to LimeLight is what we saw as well. All is back to normal at this point.

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Jay Hennigan wrote:

We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing
almost double our normal downstream traffic right now. Anyone else?

Yes, tres beaucoups.

Mostly udp/8247 for the streaming (CNN). But oddly enough, for a given
client, more outbound traffic than inbound. Streaming gone peer-to-peer?

Jeff

14

CNN is using Octoshape's P2P plug-in with Flash.

Marcello Azambuja

15

Nearly every major CDN or web host was involved with the inauguration
in some manner, with no reported issues to speak of.

Some "facilities-based" providers even placed infrastructure with
their competitors to be extra certain they could handle the traffic
spike.

With so many involved, and in the interests of full disclosure, do you
or Comcast have any fiscal interest in BitGravity's streaming of this
event? :wink:

Drive Slow
Paul Wall

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During the inauguration our traffic was higher than normal, but levels only
reached our average daily peak. More specifically, we climbed to our
average daily peak earlier than normal, and it stayed at a sustained rate,
but it didn't break any records here.

Frank

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The Beeb's HD multicast feed is about 23Mbit/s to the host, and we received
it at quite decent (subjective) quality here on a JANET-connected university
site. The feed runs continuously (as far as any 'as-is' test stream does :slight_smile:
and this morning is pretty flawless.

The interesting aspect of the HD stream was seeing how various systems coped
with the CPU load. It was good to have some HD content available that
encouraged people to install vlc, find out a little about multicast, and
system issues in receiving it.

Thanks again Beeb :slight_smile:

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Interesting read on yesterday's streaming. My experiences seem to
mirror a lot of what is written here:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/the-day-live-web-video-streaming-failed-us/

-Jim P.

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Is there a general study done on the overall impact of inauguration streaming traffic ?

any summary on what is the overall gain of bandwidth, etc.

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Arbor had a good writeup on the traffic that they saw.

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/01/the-great-obama-traffic-flood/

Regards,

James Pleger