Hi all CityLink will be assisting TVNZ with their online coverage of the Beijing games next month. The exact coverage hasn't been finalised yet, but we're expecting that TVNZ will run approximately four coverage streams - live encodings of TV1 and TVNZ sports extra (from Freeview), and two further channels that will be online only. Each will be Windows Media streams at ~90Kb/s, ~384Kb/s, and 1.5-2Mb/s, and if we can get our act together there may be an experimental HD Freeview coverage stream at 5-6Mb/s. So, a significant amount of content, much of which won't be available from traditional telly. Predicting usage for this sort of gig is difficult, particularly when access to this content by customers of some providers (Vodafone, Orcon) won't come off their data cap. We're assuming there will be heavy demand, so we're aiming to have StreamingNet (our anycast CDN) deliver aggregate 5-10Gb/s peak domestic bandwidth. Therefore, those running eyeball networks should be thinking about how best to get at this content. If your IX connections are full (or nearly full), then now may be a good time to organise an upgrade. Cheers Simon