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Author iPlayer uncovered: What powers the BBC's epic creation?
drunkenfool
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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]
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Considering how many people use it I'm surprised that it's not a lot more than 12GB per second. Interesting read.
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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.
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Good article that, good read instead of doing revision
Deadude
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think i could borrow there internet connection?
Paul_J
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12GB

~ 12,000,000 kb/s ?
John
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Yes, or about 100Gbps.
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Shit the bed, I want to install utorrent on there internet connection lmao!
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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

 
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