Net traffic explodes for NASA'S comet collision

Tue Jul 5 22:54:59 UTC 2005

I hope many of you saw this near- real-time. It was awsome.

Roy Mark writes for internetnews.com:

[snip]

Deep Impact's spectacular collision with the comet
Tempel 1 resulted in an explosion of record traffic
to the NASA Web site to see how it looked. The hyper-speed
demise of the ship's probe, as it smashed into a comet
half the size of Manhattan, generated approximately 80
million page views.

"It's off the scale," Brian Dunbar, NASA's Internet
Services Manager, told internetnews.com, noting the
previous traffic record was 30 million page views for
the Mars landing in 2004. "Hands down, it was a record
day."

[snip]

http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3517721

Pretty cool stuff. :-)

- ferg

ps. We should also be aware of how far AOL has come, too,
since the 1996 Victoria's Secret fashion show. From every
report, they pulled off streaming 7 simulateous video feeds
of the Live 8 concerts this past weekend without any substantial
problems whatsoever.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050705/ap_en_bu/internet_video_performs

Time they are a'changin'.

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg at netzero.net or fergdawg at sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/