FIFA is regarded as the world largest sport event. The host of South Africa has said that sports have the power to change the world. During the event, many video websites which broadcast the World Cup and CDN companies which speed up video transfer are more and more popular.
The World Cup is a new watershed of the internet video
In 2010 World Cup, Sport ESPN broadcasted 52 games of total 64 by its own website named ESPN 360.com. And the content was delivered by the world largest CDN Company Akamai.
At the end of 2009, Akamai strengthened its network equipments to support users with more bandwidth in order to deal with the rush hour of the Internet. In February 2010, Akamai provided CDN service for American NBC which broadcasted the Winter Olympic Game. According to the research from GigaOm, NBC supported 5000 hours' broadcast and VOD totally in 17 days of the Winter Olympic Game. And the whole files are up to 12,000TB; meanwhile, the bandwidth has reached up to374G.
Transparently, the record will be broken by 2010 World Cup. Akamai evaluates that the bandwidth of CDN will reach up to 1TB; meanwhile, the number of on-line users will be up to 10,000,000. However, there are just 3,800,000 on-line users who have watched the inauguration of Obama in America in January 2009.
In China, people are also enthusiastic for the World Cup; however, remote broadcast is the method most Chinese spectators employ. And the internet video companies as SOHU, Ku6 and other companies support users with broadcast service, and all of them need CDN to speed up the transfer.
CDN Companies Join into the World CupCDN companies get benefits from the world-scale sport event. In February 2010, NBCOlympics.com got 710,000,000 times view on webpage and 46,000,000 times individual view. In addition, NBC Olympics' mobile platform got 82,000,000 times view on webpage and 1,900,000 mobile streaming. Such a large view reveals that CDN Companies have the opportunity to show their power and ability to the world.
SINA, SOHU, Tencent, NTES Ku6, PPS, PPLIVE, TUDOU, and other internet video Companies all employ the service from Beijing Fastweb. We have more than 100 points and thousands of servers to speed up the transfer on the internet.
2010 World Cup is an important watershed of internet video, and it is undoubted the record of interview has to be broken.