Re: Net traffic explodes for NASA'S comet collision

["Marshall Eubanks" <tme () multicasttech com>]

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 22:54:59 GMT
 "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> I hope many of you saw this near- real-time. It was awsome.

It was indeed. I like to use Alexa to look at web site rankings, so here
is a comparison of the recent encounter and the Mars Rover landings

http://www.americafree.tv/rankings/nasa.html

It does indeed seem to have been more popular.

Regards
Marshall

> 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
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