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. -- 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 <p...@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 <rube...@gmail.com> > > Date: Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 12:57 PM > > To: Paul Stewart <p...@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 <p...@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 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- Clinton Work Airdrie, AB
