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How much bandwidth do 5.4 mio viewers consume? Can someone give me a number?

• meritt 14y ago
  360p uses 0.5Mbit/s. 5.4M * 0.5Mbit/s = ~330 GB/s
  • sovok 14y ago
    It went as high a 8 mio viewers, so ~488 GB/s. Maybe a new record for Youtube?
    • dag11 14y ago
      I and many others were streaming in HD, though, so surely the total bandwidth must be much higher.
• leot 14y ago
  See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast
  • devicenull 14y ago
    Multicast requires all the intermediate routers support it, I thought. Is that really the case? I can't imagine big routers at ISPs allowing multicast.
    • tcas 14y ago
      It's definitely not full multicast. Flash doesn't support multicast (if I recall correctly). They're probably doing a single stream to CDNs which then fan them out.