YouTube Live Streamed by Akamai’s CDN
Nov 23rd, 2008 | Category: NewsBy Jimmy Vu
Personnel from Mogulus discovered Saturday that YouTube Live live concert event was streamed by Akamai’s CDN (Content Delivery Network).
By monitoring live stream metrics for full network published by Akamai, they found at the peak of the event at 9:10 EST YouTube Live served about 700,000 concurrent viewers. This is an excellent result for YouTube’s first live streaming event indicating great potential of live streaming for the internet.
Google, though having its own very good CDN for text/image contents, has to rely on a third party content delivery network to scale the event stream well. It was rumored that Google has met big three live streaming services — Mogulus, Ustream and Justin.TV — to discuss partnerships or for an acquisition.
But they turned choosing Akamai instead, and though expensive it proves to work properly.
[...] a minimum of 1 million views watching live on a website, with little to no glitches. Some have said Youtube partnered with Akamai (TechCrunch as a similar report) to help carry the heavy [...]