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Tim

 posted on 13th May 09 at 21:40

They're using content delivery networks (similar to Windows Update IIRC), so they're not running 100Gbps to one datacentre ;)

I do remember reading about a lot of UK ISPs kicking up about their capacity issues when IPlayer launched :lol:


Efckitson

 posted on 13th May 09 at 20:56

Shit the bed, I want to install utorrent on there internet connection lmao!


John

 posted on 12th May 09 at 20:30

Yes, or about 100Gbps.


Paul_J

 posted on 12th May 09 at 20:28

12GB :|

~ 12,000,000 kb/s ?


Deadude

 posted on 12th May 09 at 17:54

think i could borrow there internet connection?


dannymccann

 posted on 12th May 09 at 08:08

Good article that, good read instead of doing revision :lol:


James_DT

 posted on 11th May 09 at 21:31

I love articles like this, that go into the nerdy techy side of how it all works.
Good find.
7 petabytes of data though... that's difficult to visualise. :lol:


radicalry00

 posted on 11th May 09 at 20:11

Considering how many people use it I'm surprised that it's not a lot more than 12GB per second. Interesting read.


drunkenfool

 posted on 11th May 09 at 20:09

Quite an interesting read :)

During peak hours, BBC iPlayer pumps out 12GB of data every second, and seven petabytes of data every month. It's insanely popular on Apple's iPhone -- but mostly after midnight -- and the next version of iPlayer will land this year, with some exciting new features.



http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49302215,00.htm

[Edited on 11-05-2009 by drunkenfool]