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Why the Olympics Didn't Melt the Internet
perlow tips his blog entry over at ZDNet on why the Internet didn't melt when millions of users streamed 480i video for a week. The short answer is Limelight Networks of Tempe, Arizona. "[W]hy the Internet didn't 'melt' is quite simple — [Limelight is] completely 'off the cloud.' In other words, unlike Akamai and similar content caching providers, their system isn't deployed over the public Internet... Limelight has partnered with over 800 broadband Internet providers worldwide... so that the content is either co-located in the same facility as your ISP's main communications infrastructure, or it leases a dedicated Optical Carrier line so that it actually appears as part of your ISP's internal network. In most cases, you're never even leaving your Tier 1 provider to get the video."
funny I didn't watch the olympics on the internet because it was vista only.
there simply are not enough vista users to melt the internet.
i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
Funny, I didn't watch the Olympics (has it finished yet?) because it is boring nationalistic tripe.
Just say no to Fuckroass Suckblows
was because the bulk of the world doesn't give a rats ass about crap like the Olympics. You have swimmers using suits for extra speed, China using girls who are 12-14. Who knows what DNA or steroid manipulation is being done in weightlifting, the basketball teams are (at least the USA) from the ranks of the NBA....so, who cares, it's not "sport" as much as it use to be. Plus you have China faking a 9 year old singing, fake fireworks and who knows what else.
Anonymous Coward should be auto-modded -1: Coward. France, is that you?