Re: World Cup Streaming

[Clinton Work <clinton () scripty com>]

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.  

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Clinton Work
Airdrie, AB

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014, at 03:48 PM, Alvaro Pereira wrote:
> 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 () 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 () gmail com>
> > Date:  Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM
> > To:  Paul Stewart <paul () paulstewart org>
> > Cc:  Nanog <nanog () 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 () 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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Clinton Work
Airdrie, AB