That's interesting. For the London 2012 Olympic Games, YT had the rights to live stream in tens of countries in Asia and Africa, basically everywhere where the

That's interesting. For the London 2012 Olympic Games, YT had the rights to live stream in tens of countries in Asia and Africa, basically everywhere where the Internet rights hadn't been bought by broadcasters. For latency and reliability, they ran new fiber from 30 Rock (NBC) to a Google POP. Unrelated, Google Fiber also got a license for antennas in the Iowa datacenter: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/places/1 https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/places/1 In this case, though, it's not YouTube pulling streams from the source, it's C-SPAN pushing them. I wonder what kind of setup is in place there.