World Cup Streaming

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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

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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

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Thank you.

I’m actually based in Canada and there is a strong following of Soccer here
:slight_smile:

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

4

In Canada, the last Winter Olympic Games were streamed from olympics.cbc.ca
(hosted by Akamai), which helped us find which upstream provider we would
be getting the content from.

Does anyone know which hostname will be used for the cbc.ca World Cup
streaming?

Thanks,

Alvaro Pereira

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There are three reasons to expect US viewing will be significantly higher
than in World Cups past:

   1. The WC will be in the same time zone as most of the US viewing
   audience;
   2. While the USA team will not win, they are good enough they may make
   multiple rounds.
   3. British (English) humor is popular in the US. Very four years, the
   "Three Lions" comedy troupe put on a performance that has them rolling in
   the aisles. With cult performers Rooney, Gerrard, Welbeck, and Hart,
   hijinks will ensue and fun will be had by all![1]

1. Except the English, who will be bitter and depressed. But they are
happiest being bitter and depressed.

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   3. British (English) humor is popular in the US. Very four years, the
   "Three Lions" comedy troupe put on a performance that has them rolling in
   the aisles. With cult performers Rooney, Gerrard, Welbeck, and Hart,
   hijinks will ensue and fun will be had by all![1]

1. Except the English, who will be bitter and depressed. But they are
happiest being bitter and depressed.

  As a Limey, touche sir, touche.

  Rooney is the 2960G of football, plenty of potential but you know he won't quite cut it in the enterprise space.

  With that said, the hair transplant may provide additional buffer space for balls delivered with higher MTU.

Chris

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CBC in Canada has just released details about their World Cup app.
http://mobilesyrup.com/2014/06/09/cbcs-fifa-world-cup-2014-app-offers-live-matches-multi-angle-replays-scores-news-and-bios/

I heard that some of the broadcasters had privacy agreements with Akamai
which is why they wouldn't share event traffic predictions. I reached
out to Akamai before the 2014 Winter Olympics and they wouldn't share
anything.