World Cup Streaming

Sun Jun 8 21:48:51 UTC 2014

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

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:

> Thank you.
>
> I’m actually based in Canada and there is a strong following of Soccer here
> :)
>
> 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
>
>
> From:  Rubens Kuhl <rubensk at gmail.com>
> Date:  Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM
> To:  Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org>
> Cc:  Nanog <nanog at nanog.org>
> Subject:  Re: World Cup Streaming
>
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org>
> wrote:
> >> 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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