I'm sure endless FOI requests and the associated costs with those will make sure anymore money isn't wasted on a service the audience benefit from....
2009/4/19 Phil Lewis <[email protected]> > 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]/ >
