[Gllug] Now you don't see that everyday

[Minty]

On 7/6/05, Simon Wilcox <essuu at ourshack.com> wrote:
> bbc.co.uk overwhelmed by traffic. I thought they had more capacity than
> anyone else anywhere. It's just not cricket.

Apologies if this has been through before .... catching up after
(timely) holiday break.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/07July_Statistics.shtml

* 11Gigabits per second, plus another 3 gigabits per second vi Akamai
  (by my calculations, about 3 full cds every second)
* 40,000 page requests per second peak
* over 120,000 simultaneous audio/video streams

For those in the ISP biz, please see note at the bottom (of the url
above) about multicast....
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