Akamai: Rio Olympics Consumes Massive Amount of Web Data

With the Closing Event of the Rio Olympics heating up, this function of the world is starting to melody into the alive stream to grab the festivities. According to Akamai, streaming video for one of the globe's biggest sporting events has generated massive traffic records of all time.

Coming in behind the 2022 FIFA Earth Cup and 2022 Euro Cup, both of which managed to rack upward 6.9Tbps and 7.3Tbps respectively, the Rio Olympics reiterates how of import online content streaming really is. Generating all that are the broadcasting platforms and online streaming equivalents Akamai empowered to ensure all content access points are covered.

Having known that video streaming on the web—all shown live—volition have the highest need for data, Akamai fabricated sure the platform it and its partners used are fully optimised for the insane demands.

Expectations are equally as obscene as demands from media partners, in terms of content streams beingness fabricated available at the aforementioned time, is 100x more than what the London and Sochi Olympics required. This includes over 50 broadcasters worldwide, YouTube, and multiple media partners offering live content streams for the Rio Olympics.

Of course, traffic speeds and peaks have also shot up as they are rated at 2x and 3x respectively.

Thus, Akamai is in the unique office to collect, find, and analyse all the data and trends around Olympics related video traffic. Among the poignant points it shared is how the content delivery platform provider managed to "stream more video information in the first eight days of Rio than it did for all 34 days of London and Sochi combined."

Other details include the max peak traffic, now at 4.53Tbps; current summit traffic, four.27Tbps at press fourth dimension; almost real-time tracking of the viewership tuning in simultaneously; and a heat map that tracks traffic by region.

More than details, with videos included, tin can be found on the specially developed microsite that Akamai adult.

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