Comments on: Akamai Powering Apple Live Stream (And I Can Prove It)

By: HTML5 y el video live streaming | IP Video surveillance & Cloud Computing blog

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:46:53 +0000

[...] fuentes que decían que retransmitirían la misma desde el nuevo data center para retransmitirla, al final fue Akamai quien lo hizo. Desde mi punto de vista era demasiado precipitado y no podían garantizar la calidad de servicio. [...]

By: Jochen

Jochen — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:09:39 +0000

did someone actually check the akamai live traffic monitor during the event? Screenshot?

By: Mikey Smalton

Mikey Smalton — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:40:42 +0000

ha ha ha

rayburn, guy you dont even know how a cdn works, take a seat chief

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Our Full Coverage of the $99 Apple TV, Ping, & More — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:02:35 +0000

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By: Carson McDonald

Carson McDonald — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:01:13 +0000

I think the interesting thing to come out of Apple streaming this event is how little people understand about the streaming itself. That may partially explain why there hasn’t been a rush to implement it. Nobody really cares how these things get streamed but only that they do and there are plenty of ways to do this already. This will play out as HTML5 video starts to take off, browsers speak HTTP and that is where Apple’s streaming shines.

By: Mac Help

Mac Help — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:21:51 +0000

I work with Akamai daily, and the page and everything else around the event screams Akamai tech.

If they were just streaming the page, you would have seen it as just an Apple.com domain.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:05:24 +0000

Great — I have been coordinating our live coverage and haven’t been able to pester them. Thanks Dan!

By: Dan Rayburn

Dan Rayburn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:35:22 +0000

Liz, Akamai just confirmed for me that they are in fact delivering the live stream.

By: Dan Rayburn

Dan Rayburn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:28:24 +0000

Paul, the URL you reference is to the page of the event, not to the video stream. Akamai is serving up the content around the stream, but maybe not the actual video.

By: Dan Rayburn

Dan Rayburn — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:26:00 +0000

Can’t go by their dashboard. If you trace the stream (http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/sep/1009qpeijrfn/1009oiubqherbfoteg_audio_ref.mov) and then lookup the IP address, it comes back to Apple but that could be CNAMEd from anywhere.

Not sure either way as of yet. Still need to do more digging.