YouTube Stream First Live Event
YouTube streamed its first live event featuring a mix of celebrities, musicians and a number of YouTube favourites. Surprisingly, considering the massive infrastructure that Google and YouTube have, they worked with CDN partner Akamai (who also support the BBC iPlayer) to deliver the streaming video, and achieved up to 700,000 simultaneous streams. The player was built by the digital agency digitaria.
Akamai have some interesting visualization tools, for showing internet paths, and number of streams which are all updated in real time.
