Evening All, There are several webcasts coming up in the next few weeks. These are brought to your attention so that Help Desks, etc may be forewarned of potential calls. There may even be some network activity. 1-3 March - Hui Taumata - Maori Economic Development Summit, at Te Papa Will be webcast during normal business hours - not likely to have a huge viewer base, but will be webcast in 5 streams as is usual for us. (3 video, 2 audio). Server will be on WIX with limited international capacity. 11-13 March Girl's Day Out - Big Sister Event - AKL Showgrounds It appears to be a 72 hour non-stop webcast with 6 simultaneous cameras. Each camera will stream in 56k, 128k and 256kbps. Which adds up to quite a bit of bandwidth. We will be using 3 carriers to supply the van (which will be bigger, coz we can't fit all the gear in). We do have a web page which allows you to watch all 6 cameras, but don't try it on a telephone modem. The event will (hopefully) use servers on WIX, APE and PNIX and will have national + international routes for operators not peering on those exchanges - but will be heavily rate limited. Operators are STRONGLY urged to peer before the event. This has the potential to be a "large traffic generator" and operators should be aware of this. Fortunately it is a week end. Help Desks may also experience an increase in calls for assistance. 26 March - Wedding in Carterton A Saturday event over Easter week end. Mainly for family of the happy couple. It is unlikely that it will cause any traffic or Help Desk calls as the main audience is in the UK.. Server will be on WIX or APE + international. Early April - Sports event - unconfirmed. We will advise next month if this is going ahead. Thank you for your co-operation. Please contact me if you have any questions. (we don't need any more crew sorry - 2 extras from the office are joining us) Rich (wearing my R2 hat)