OPERATIONAL: Royal Wedding expected to break traffic records
Preshow coverage on TV starts at 0400 EDT; 6 short hours from now. Did *you* make special plans? :-) Cheers, -- jra
Not just that ... Youtube is apparently expecting 400 million (?!) viewers! http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110428/tc_zd/263745 The doomsayers are out with freshly painted signs ... the Internet will break tomorrow morning! :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Jay Ashworth [mailto:jra@baylink.com] Sent: April-28-11 10:13 PM To: NANOG Subject: OPERATIONAL: Royal Wedding expected to break traffic records
Preshow coverage on TV starts at 0400 EDT; 6 short hours from now.
Did *you* make special plans? :-)
Cheers, -- jra
From: Rob V Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 7:27 PM To: 'NANOG' Subject: RE: OPERATIONAL: Royal Wedding expected to break traffic records
Not just that ... Youtube is apparently expecting 400 million (?!) viewers!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110428/tc_zd/263745
The doomsayers are out with freshly painted signs ... the Internet will break tomorrow morning! :-)
(cough)multicast(cough)
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
Not just that ... Youtube is apparently expecting 400 million (?!) viewers!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110428/tc_zd/263745
The doomsayers are out with freshly painted signs ... the Internet will break tomorrow morning! :-)
(cough)multicast(cough)
But... but... how do we count the viewers, then? Cheers, -- jra
On 29 Apr 2011, at 03:26, Rob V wrote:
Not just that ... Youtube is apparently expecting 400 million (?!) viewers!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20110428/tc_zd/263745
The doomsayers are out with freshly painted signs ... the Internet will break tomorrow morning! :-)
Must say the quality of the Youtube coverage has been very good, in all senses. Interesting early on the youtube feed lagged 20+ seconds behind the 'live' BBC TV, then during the ceremony was almost simulataneous. Tim
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