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