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shon at unwiredbb

Jul 8, 2009, 8:08 AM

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Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
most of the people I've talked to.

-S

tme at americafree

Jul 8, 2009, 8:45 AM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote:

> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
> Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
> traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.
>
>
> -S
>

Don't know about backbones, but this is the best statistical summary I
have seen.

TECHCRUNCH : Michael Jackson’s Memorial, By The Numbers
http://ow.ly/15H7Op

>

Regards
Marshall Eubanks
@AmericaFreeTV on twitter

>

jason at lixfeld

Jul 8, 2009, 9:04 AM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

On 8-Jul-09, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote:

> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
> Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
> traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

Not sure if this qualifies as backbone, per se but a quick scan of a
few IX public data graphs shows roughly the following increase for the
day over the previous Tuesday:

SIX: 25% increase
TorIX: 23% increase
LAIIX: 21% increase
NYIIX: 19% increase

jbates at brightok

Jul 8, 2009, 9:14 AM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something
you'd give out free over the Internet.

Jack

ekujawski at softlayer

Jul 8, 2009, 9:25 AM

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RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during the event.

Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000

Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.

Thanks,

Eric Kujawski
Director of Engineering
ekujawski [at] softlayer
214-442-0583 direct dial
469-586-9636 cell
866-398-7638Ā toll-free
214-442-0601Ā fax

SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
6400 International Parkway, Suite 2000
Plano, TX 75093
http://www.softlayer.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates [at] brightok]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
To: Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog [at] nanog
Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something
you'd give out free over the Internet.

Jack

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justin at justinshore

Jul 8, 2009, 1:39 PM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

99.99% of my userbase is in the rural Midwest. Needless to say I saw no
increase in bandwidth consumption. Now if it was a streaming memorial
for George Strait, Garth Brooks, Little Jimmy Dickens or Willie Nelson I
suspect the consumption would have been noticeably higher. I'm sure I
would have had much higher bandwidth usage if the PBR National
Championship was made available for streaming.

Justin

tme at americafree

Jul 8, 2009, 1:46 PM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Eric Kujawski wrote:

> Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during
> the event.
>
> Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
>
> Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average
> across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live
> streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
>

Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Limelight (@lunk18 on twitter) says

Set new traffic record today. MJ's funeral topped Obama's
inauguration. Go figure... Follow @llnw for more stats later...

Those "more stats" are as yet not available.

Regards
Marshall Eubanks
email : tme [at] americafree
twitter : @TMEubanks
Cut the Cord with AmericaFree.TV

> Thanks,
>
> Eric Kujawski
> Director of Engineering
> ekujawski [at] softlayer
> 214-442-0583 direct dial
> 469-586-9636 cell
> 866-398-7638 toll-free
> 214-442-0601 fax
>
> SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
> 6400 International Parkway, Suite 2000
> Plano, TX 75093
> http://www.softlayer.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates [at] brightok]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
> To: Shon Elliott
> Cc: nanog [at] nanog
> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
>
> Shon Elliott wrote:
>> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
>> Jackson effected
>> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
>> traffic day to
>> most of the people I've talked to.
>
> We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
> through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
> bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for something
> you'd give out free over the Internet.
>
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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tme at americafree

Jul 8, 2009, 1:55 PM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote:

>
>
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Eric Kujawski wrote:
>
>> Speaking from a provider's view, this is what we saw/heard during
>> the event.
>>
>> Total concurrent streams (across the board not just us): 781,000
>>
>> Traffic wise, we peaked at close to 45G over our daily average
>> across all locations during the MJ event. This was all live
>> streaming traffic for one of the well known sites.
>>
>
> Jeff Lunsford, CEO of Limelight (@lunk18 on twitter) says
>
> Set new traffic record today. MJ's funeral topped Obama's
> inauguration. Go figure... Follow @llnw for more stats later...
>
> Those "more stats" are as yet not available.
>

More statistics at Layer 4 :

http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=450&doc_id=178968

Marshall

> Regards
> Marshall Eubanks
> email : tme [at] americafree
> twitter : @TMEubanks
> Cut the Cord with AmericaFree.TV
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric Kujawski
>> Director of Engineering
>> ekujawski [at] softlayer
>> 214-442-0583 direct dial
>> 469-586-9636 cell
>> 866-398-7638 toll-free
>> 214-442-0601 fax
>>
>> SoftLayer Technologies, Inc.
>> 6400 International Parkway, Suite 2000
>> Plano, TX 75093
>> http://www.softlayer.com
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates [at] brightok]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
>> To: Shon Elliott
>> Cc: nanog [at] nanog
>> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
>>
>> Shon Elliott wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
>>> Jackson effected
>>> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
>>> traffic day to
>>> most of the people I've talked to.
>>
>> We are far from a global backbone, though the eyeballs transiting
>> through us appear to have not needed more bandwidth. Was there high
>> bandwidth apps for the memorial? Seems strange to charge for
>> something
>> you'd give out free over the Internet.
>>
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>>
>> The contents of this email message and any attachments are
>> confidential and are intended solely for the addressee. The
>> information may also be legally privileged. This transmission is
>> sent in trust for the sole purpose of delivery to the intended
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>> use, reproduction or dissemination of this transmission is strictly
>> prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please
>> immediately notify the sender by reply email and delete this
>> message and all associated attachments.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>

Regards
Marshall Eubanks
email : tme [at] americafree
twitter : @TMEubanks
Cut the Cord with AmericaFree.TV

jeff-kell at utc

Jul 8, 2009, 1:59 PM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

Nothing like inauguration, but then we're on summer semester schedule
and sparsely populated :-)

There was a noticeable spike in OUTBOUND traffic and connections, mostly
that ill-behaved Octoshape (udp/8247), used by CNN and maybe others.

Jeff

frnkblk at iname

Jul 8, 2009, 6:11 PM

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RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

Ditto here. Did not see any increase.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Shore [mailto:justin [at] justinshore]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:39 PM
To: Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog [at] nanog
Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael Jackson
effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of traffic
day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

99.99% of my userbase is in the rural Midwest. Needless to say I saw no
increase in bandwidth consumption. Now if it was a streaming memorial
for George Strait, Garth Brooks, Little Jimmy Dickens or Willie Nelson I
suspect the consumption would have been noticeably higher. I'm sure I
would have had much higher bandwidth usage if the PBR National
Championship was made available for streaming.

Justin

pstewart at nexicomgroup

Jul 8, 2009, 6:13 PM

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RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

We were 30% higher than ever seen before in our network.... quite a jump
for about an hour...

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk [at] iname]
Sent: July 8, 2009 9:11 PM
To: 'Justin Shore'; Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog [at] nanog
Subject: RE: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Ditto here. Did not see any increase.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Shore [mailto:justin [at] justinshore]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 3:39 PM
To: Shon Elliott
Cc: nanog [at] nanog
Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday

Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
Jackson
effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
traffic
day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

99.99% of my userbase is in the rural Midwest. Needless to say I saw no

increase in bandwidth consumption. Now if it was a streaming memorial
for George Strait, Garth Brooks, Little Jimmy Dickens or Willie Nelson I

suspect the consumption would have been noticeably higher. I'm sure I
would have had much higher bandwidth usage if the PBR National
Championship was made available for streaming.

Justin

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labovit at arbor

Jul 9, 2009, 5:10 AM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but
not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.

A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with
the daily average:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0

- Craig

On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
> Jackson effected
> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
> traffic day to
> most of the people I've talked to.

eric at atlantech

Jul 9, 2009, 5:26 AM

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Labovitz [mailto:labovit [at] arbor]
> Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:10 AM
> To: Shon Elliott
> Cc: nanog [at] nanog
> Subject: Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday
>
>
> It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but
> not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
>
> A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with
> the daily average:
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0
>
> - Craig

Our traffic was doubled for MJ, actually 1/3 *more* than Obama. However, we're regional to DC, so I can only imagine that since the inauguration was a huge local event, many of our customers were either working from home that day or actually there and not watching it on the internet.

-evt

tme at americafree

Jul 9, 2009, 11:22 AM

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Re: Traffic Statistics for Yesterday [In reply to]

On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Craig Labovitz wrote:

>
> It was big (flash traffic roughly doubled globally at the peak), but
> not in the same ballpark as Obama inauguration.
>
> A graph of July 7 flash traffic across 97 tier1/2 ISPs compared with
> the daily average:
> http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2581/3704208402_34ca00597d.jpg?v=0
>

Dear Craig;

Are you planning to write this up along the lines of your Iranian
election work ?

http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/06/iranian-traffic-engineering/

Regards
Marshall

> - Craig
>
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2009, at 11:08 AM, Shon Elliott wrote:
>> Does anyone have any data on how the memorial event for Michael
>> Jackson effected
>> the global backbones? This was seen as another inaugural type of
>> traffic day to
>> most of the people I've talked to.
>
>
>

email : tme [at] americafree
twitter : @TMEubanks
Cut the Cord with AmericaFree.TV

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