Internet Somehow Survives Michael Jackson Funeral

07 Jul, 2009

Sure, the Department of Defense designed it to be military-grade rugged, but no one really knew if the internet could handle a memorial service webcast of a pop megastar. Oh, it was brutal. From a network engineering perspective.

Michael Jackson‘s service drew, at its peak, about 2.8 million video and audio streams through the network of content middleman Akamai, versus around 350,000  …

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