Hello All,
This is a very preliminary Heads Up on the network impact of the LOTR
Premiere to be held in 2 months time. I'm detailing what is planned so that
operators can make arrangements for bandwidth, peering, route exchanging,
or other descriptions for making it easy for their customers to view the
content. Offers of bandwidth, money, food or sleep are also very welcome.
(Its monday and I'm tired and grumpy and may just tell everyone to bugger off)
The current plan, is that we will have a few more webcams around the
Courtenay Place area. These seem very popular, especially with Canadians
for some reason. Viewers like to watch the street preparations and clean up
take place.
There will also be a large streaming programme in place, which MAY begin up
to 7 days before the event and carry on up to 3 days afterwards. They may
be 24 hour continuous streams. All streams at this stage will be at 5 bit
rates (2 audio and 3 video).
Both the webcam server and streaming server have gigE connections to WIX
and are peered with as many as we can. Last year we were carrying around
140mbps and all servers were at around 10% capacity. We expect a little
more interest this year.
Our international capacity is very limited both by carrier and by budget.
We are currently negotiating feeds to offshore streamers to reduce the
potential international impact. Ours will certainly stop. Any offers of
International capacity would be gladly accepted. At the moment we can't
even guarantee that we will be able to feed off shore streamers.
Confirmed Dates
At this stage the following dates can be confirmed.
Sun 30 Nov - theonering dance party. Andy will be playing. Don't know times
yet.
Mon 1 Dec - the premiere - set up, red carpet stuff, clean up. All day and
most of the night stream. Event will be BIG. Last year the Avalon crew was
used. This year I suspect we'll all have to pool camera feeds. The area to
be covered is huge. (thats a big hint)
What do I want ?
Sleep, food, money.
If you feel that your customers will be watching the event, please check
your connectivity to WIX.
If you have a streamer (MS) and want to carry a feed, I'll make a server
available purely for replication servers, but this is very much demand
driven. remember the budget is very easy to understand - zero.
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Cheers - rich
