YouTube Live Streamed by Akamai’s CDN
Nov 23rd, 2008
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 ...