Don't know about the costs but they use the Akamai content delivery network for the HD (and other) stuff. They use a number of other CDNs for the other flash streams also. This allows them to push the content out to caches 'nearer' the end-user so the beeb only have to upload it once.
> BBC HD streaming bandwidth costs must be astronomical, even with p2p > support, anyone know what their useage is? Or % bandwidth they have to > supply? Probably closely guarded secrets & an FOI request would be > needed to prise the info out heh heh. > > Not like the old days when the bbc real protocol mrtg stats were on a > public server ;) > > Nico M > > 2009/4/18 Phil Lewis <[email protected]>: > > I actually downloaded the file and checked the size. I guess you could > > take a peak at the ethernet interface statistics on the PC using iplayer > > - no idea how you do that on windows though... There must be a free tool > > somewhere to measure network volume usage. > > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
