We’ve just noticed a big spike in iPlayer traffic. I think it’s fairly easy to conclude that the traffic is people watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
We are currently seeing around 600Mbps of iPlayer traffic, with the Olympics stream being roughly 430kbps per customer when you deduct off the normal volume of iPlayer traffic around 1,500 of our customers are watching the Olympic’s via their broadband connections which is approximately 9.5% of all those customers currently online. More…
The Open began yesterday and we noticed a big increase in traffic coming from iPlayer in the morning and afternoon. The BBC website is streaming live coverage of The Open (using the same technology as iPlayer) so it’s natural to assume that the majority of that increase in traffic is from people watching the golf. More…
It’s been a little while since we posted an update about the latest happenings on the network and particular what’s happening with streaming usage. We’ll start as usual with a few of headlines then move on with a bit more detail: More…
Second part of the interview with Dave Tomlinson about traffic management
After a good few months of interviewing, capturing, editing and general multimedia stuff, we finally have our series of internal interviews ready for showing!
We’ll start with Dave Tomlinson from our Products Team talking about our Traffic Management platform. I hope they are an interesting insight into the running of UK ISP.
We have just activated an additional 155Mbps segment of central bandwidth. Customers connecting to the new segment will be terminated on the gateway pcl-ag02.
The new capacity has been activated in line with the current budget and projected growth in customer numbers.
When new capacity is added, it takes time for the network to balance and for a representative proportion of the customer base to connect to the new segment. In order to speed up this process and help balance the platform to give the most benefit to customers, it may be necessary for us to temporarily disconnect a number of customers from the network. Should we take the decision to do this we will announce further details as a planned maintenance notice otherwise it may take up to a week for the new segment to be balanced.
We frequently review our plans for the purchase of additional capacity and will continue to do this based on projected customer numbers.
Bob
As you may or may not know, here at PlusNet we employ a traffic management system to ensure that the network traffic for “interactive” applications (like web browsing, gaming, instant messaging, etc) is treated with higher priority than, for instance, peer-to-peer traffic. More…
Each year, we publish what we plan to do over the course of the year. You can see what we set out to do last year in our Plans for 2007 post and what we actually did in our update. We might have bitten off more than we could chew…
Here is a quick review of last year and a view of our plans for the next 12 months. So read on to find out what’s coming up More…
A few weeks ago Ashley Highfield, former Director of Future Media & Technology at the BBC, posted an article called the “Hidden Costs” of Watching TV Online. It makes for an interesting read and is a good starting point for having a debate on this topic. Ashley raised 19 potential ‘actions’ although stressed that these weren’t necessarily his opinion. More…
This post is intended as a short article centred on how we manage the gaming experience for our customers. I’ve focussed on:
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