BBC Delivered 2.8PB On Busiest Olympics Day, Reaching 700Gb/s As Wiggo Won Gold

Qedward writes "The BBC has revealed that on the busiest day of its London 2012 Olympics coverage it delivered 2.8 petabytes worth of content, peaking when Bradley Wiggins won gold, where it shifted 700Gb/s. It has also said that over a 24-hour period on the busiest Olympic days it had more traffic to bbc.co.uk than it did for the entire BBC coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2010 games. They revealed they had 106 million requests for BBC Olympic video content, which included 12 million requests for video on mobile devices across the whole of the Games. Mobile saw the most uptake at around 6pm when people had left the office but still wanted to keep informed of the latest action. Tablet usage, however, reached a peak at around 9pm, where people were using it as a second screen or as they continued to watch the games in bed."

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Re:A fraction of what it could have been

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>>>Really feel for those that had to endure NBC.

NBC and NBColympics.com costs me $0.00 (as do all the other FreeToAir channels). - BBC costs about $300 a year. - You are correct that BBC was a good bargain THIS year for the two weeks of of the Olympics.

But would I really want to continue paying that fee year-after-year? That is $3000 over the whole last decade and from what I've seen of BBC dramas..... it isn't worth it. (Neither is HBO or Showtime which carry similar high pricetags for their content.) I buy or rent BBC, HBO, etc shows for less money on DVD, or through hulu.