Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE.

Message: 18 Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:37:36 +1200 From: Richard Naylor Subject: Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE. To: "Allard, Simon, VF-NZ" , "Bill Walker" , Message-ID: <20080731123754.0F3DD7D82D3(a)angus.iconz.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed

At 04:08 p.m. 31/07/2008, Allard, Simon, VF-NZ wrote:

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Keep in mind that Akamai Streaming != Akamai Static content

Not neccessarily. I did a live streaming job just before Christmas 07 for a site in Germany that had Akamai as its back end for both Live and on-demand. We were live for about 10 days. The feed point (ingest) was Sydney (via 2 different ISPs). The closest server was also Sydney from memory. The on-demand we uploaded to Germany each night.

Peering used to be a dirty word at Akamai. Their business model/architecure didn't encourage it. So it would have been a "very large customer" (tm) who got it changed.

It means on-line.skytv.co.nz will work now.

Good work by CallPlus.

hmm... try telling that to Patrick Gilmore, the peering coordinator for akamai - one of the most vocal peering guys in europe. how long ago was it that peering was a dirty word for akamai? Anton