Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.
-S
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.-S
Don't know about backbones, but this is the best statistical summary I have seen.
TECHCRUNCH : Michael Jackson’s Memorial, By The Numbers
http://ow.ly/15H7Op
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Marshall Eubanks
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Not sure if this qualifies as backbone, per se but a quick scan of a few IX public data graphs shows roughly the following increase for the day over the previous Tuesday:
SIX: 25% increase
TorIX: 23% increase
LAIIX: 21% increase
NYIIX: 19% increase
Shon Elliott wrote:
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.
We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something you'd give out free over the Internet.
Jack
Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event.
Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
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Shon Elliott wrote:
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.
99.99% of my userbase is in the rural Midwest. Needless to say I saw no increase in bandwidth consumption. Now if it was a streaming memorial for George Strait, Garth Brooks, Little Jimmy Dickens or Willie Nelson I suspect the consumption would have been noticeably higher. I'm sure I would have had much higher bandwidth usage if the PBR National Championship was made available for streaming.
Justin
Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event.
Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Limelight (@lunk18 on twitter) says
Set new traffic record today. MJ's funeral topped Obama's inauguration. Go figure... Follow @llnw for more stats later...
Those "more stats" are as yet not available.
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Marshall Eubanks
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Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event.
Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Limelight (@lunk18 on twitter) says
Set new traffic record today. MJ's funeral topped Obama's inauguration. Go figure... Follow @llnw for more stats later...
Those "more stats" are as yet not available.
More statistics at Layer 4 :
http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=178968
Marshall
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Marshall Eubanks
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twitter : @TMEubanks
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Eric Kujawski
Director of Engineering
ekujawski@softlayer.com
214-442-0583 direct dial
469-586-9636 cell
866-398-7638 toll-free
214-442-0601 faxSoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
6400 International Parkway, Suite 2000
Plano, TX 75093
http://www.softlayer.comFrom: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
To: Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for YesterdayShon Elliott wrote:
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something
you'd give out free over the Internet.Jack
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Nothing like inauguration, but then we're on summer semester schedule
and sparsely populated 
There was a noticeable spike in OUTBOUND traffic and connections, mostly
that ill-behaved Octoshape (udp/8247), used by CNN and maybe others.
Jeff
Ditto here. Did not see any increase.
Frank
We were 30% higher than ever seen before in our network.... quite a jump
for about an hour...
Paul
It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with the daily average:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0
- Craig
Our traffic was doubled for MJ, actually 1/3 *more* than Obama. However, we're regional to DC, so I can only imagine that since the inauguration was a huge local event, many of our customers were either working from home that day or actually there and not watching it on the internet.
-evt
It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with the daily average:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0
Dear Craig;
Are you planning to write this up along the lines of your Iranian election work ?
http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/
Regards
Marshall
- Craig
Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.
email : tme@americafree.tv
twitter : @TMEubanks
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