Comments on: UPDATED: Is the Web Breaking Under the Inaugural Strain?

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Where Did You Watch Obama Become President? — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:22:04 +0000

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By: Facebook + CNN Is Future of TV | Viral Video Maker

Facebook + CNN Is Future of TV | Viral Video Maker — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:52:42 +0000

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By: The Obama Inauguration Live Stream Stats « NewTeeVee

The Obama Inauguration Live Stream Stats « NewTeeVee — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:57:21 +0000

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By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:33:25 +0000

@Andrew and @Dan,

To your point @Stacey says in the first paragraph: so it may be a question of allocating resources on the back-end servers rather than a network problem.

And @ Alistair, thanks for the explanation!

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חורים ברשת » עמוד הבית » רוחות של שינוי — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:07:18 +0000

[...] זו הייתה שעתו היפה של האינטרנט, שלצד הטלוויזיה העביר את אירועי היום למאות מיליוני ברחבי העולם. והאתרים הגדולים, כמעט כמו תמיד באירועים בסדר גודל כזה, התקשו לעמוד בעומס וקרטעו קשות. [...]

By: Facebook + CNN Is Future of TV « NewTeeVee

Facebook + CNN Is Future of TV « NewTeeVee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:17:21 +0000

[...] many people reported problems with various feeds, CNN was the most stable and highest quality I found (I only had to refresh once). Hulu and MSNBC [...]

By: Ditching NewTeeVee for an OldTeeVee Inauguration « NewTeeVee

Ditching NewTeeVee for an OldTeeVee Inauguration « NewTeeVee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:10:06 +0000

By: Inauguaration Videos and Related Materials | Akkam's Razor

Inauguaration Videos and Related Materials | Akkam's Razor — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:53:14 +0000

[...] rolled out a redesign at 12:01pm. Today was also a BIG day for new media, although the web appeared to be showing the strain. Aretha Franklin wore what could only be described as an interesting hat. Should you be so [...]

By: Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:44:25 +0000

Oh, and — traffic doesn’t break the Internet. Architecture does.

By: Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:43:32 +0000

In the spirit of new-found mutual respect, I’m gonna say: It’s both.

Nielsen-level audiences aren’t working on the net, and won’t until we scale to a one-to-many model (sideloading video with P4P or something similar.) At the same time, it’s the messy edges of the network that are breaking many of these media sites.

One of the promises of online video is personalization, the ability to insert interstitial advertising into video streams that are targeted to a particular geography or demographic. That’s hard to do in the middle, particularly if you’re trying to stream data — it’s one of the appeals of tech like Silverlight.

Unfortunately, personalization is the enemy of scale. So we’re in a bit of an arms race between increasingly targeted content, and increasingly scalable distribution of video. Sprinkle a demand for higher resolution and season with multi-screen, interactive content, and we’re going to have sub-optimal online video for quite some time.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:41:36 +0000

LLNW actually peaked at 250Gb/s above previous records.. substantially more than just 250Gb/s total.

By: Andrew Schmitt

Andrew Schmitt — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:31:12 +0000

Amen Dan.

It is the sources and sinks, not the tubes that are the problem.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:28:32 +0000

Dan, I offered that up as an explanation in the post. It’s the second sentence.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:23:17 +0000

The internet backbone is quite resilient. With Amazon services in play, and the video quality tweek’d with a little bit, I think everyone was able to avoid fail whales. If not, it was bad sysadmins.