Comments on: The Tiger Effect

By: Schwabby

Schwabby — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:08:25 +0000

Indications that we have to and will be watching for this type of bandwidth increase across our footprint with regard to upcoming events such as the Olympics, Election Coverage/Results, or this event may even provide some insight as to how many folks spend corporate resources mousing thru sites such as YouTube. Prolly not as much as a 500 Gbps spike but worth getting prepped for with a big event coming up on the other side of the planet.

By: WebbAlert - June 23, 2008 | TechTV Update

WebbAlert - June 23, 2008 | TechTV Update — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:29:27 +0000

[...] Was that a DDOS or just Tiger Woods? ISPs reported record traffic during the U.S. Open. [...]

By: Denying service to Tiger Woods | Business is Personal

Denying service to Tiger Woods | Business is Personal — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:35:17 +0000

[...] network engineer at Arbor Networks, noticed an interesting pattern to the Flash video traffic on the internet during Tiger and Rocco’s playoff [...]

By: wombat

wombat — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:38:20 +0000

Golf-watchers maxed out our OC3 internet link. Gonna have to put a hose clamp on the fiber to choke off Limelight and Akami traffic. Either that, or figure out how to shock end-users through the mouse and get them back to work.

Our traffic graphs on the day look just like the ones referenced above, and all of our excess traffic at the time was flash from Limelight.

By: Snaglepuss

Snaglepuss — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:39:31 +0000

We did see traffic spike, but we also saw a significant spike in darknet traffic over the same period. If this is just Tiger, why so much darknet traffic at the same time?
We saw a large spike of traffic to Limelight streaming media, but not until the next day.

By: The Roundtable » Blog Archive » The Tiger Effect and the US Open

The Roundtable » Blog Archive » The Tiger Effect and the US Open — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:31:11 +0000

[...] it appears people certainly did just that! According to Arbor Networks, ISPs throughout the country saw a massive spike in streaming video during this time - about 3.5 [...]

By: GolfFan

GolfFan — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:47 +0000

use tvuplayer (http://www.tvunetworks.com/). it’s a p2p video streaming protocol for people who have media to share. in this case, the sharer was sharing ESPN (from satellite, tv, etc. into his PC) allowing the rest of us to watch the us open.

By: Informed

Informed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:56:50 +0000

Hey “me” - it strikes me that it is, in fact, you who should do your homework. The article clearly states that CDNs Akamai and Limelight were both doing the streaming on behalf of the US Open. Meaning, the US Open was paying for that type of streaming capacity.

It’s actually pretty reasonable that two of the biggest CDNs in the world can together push 700 Gbps of Flash streaming video. Looking at the graph though, there was a good 200 Gbps of baseline traffic there before the event, so it looks to me like Tiger drove more of a 500 Gbps spike.

By: MeBeDumb

MeBeDumb — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:38:18 +0000

“me” wrote “Do you really believe the US open has the capability to push *700* gigabits of stream to the net?”. Read the article, most of the traffic was served by Akamai and Limelight… so yes I do really believe that they have the capability of serving 700 gigabits to the net.

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