According to news report, Prince William and Kate Middleton will hold their wedding ceremony on April 29th. It is estimated that the wedding will cost between 20 to 40 million pounds (about 420 million yuan) Meanwhile the official wedding website will provide the video broadcast a few hours after the event.
As the wedding of the century anticipated by the whole world, the ceremony will be watched by tens of millions of netizens through the internet. For the video on demand websites such high volume of traffic can bring the server operation to the brink of overload and interruption. Service providers will face the challenge of handling high traffic burst of the video services.
Increasing demand for media visit bursts:
According to experts study online video broadcasting has gained importance in many industry. During the Obama inauguration ceremony the online traffic has increased a lot. And during the first day of the World Soccer Cup, the internet traffic volumes of global news websites have broken the record, reaching 12. 1 million visitors per minutes after 6 hours of broadcast. In addition, during the "two major meetings of people's candidates" and the total solar eclipse live broadcasting services were demanded as well.
How to effectively meet the challenge:
IT professionals have rendered:live broadcasting of major events are increasingly prevalent, so if abnormal internet activity arises fast responses are essential. Traditional route is to increase bandwidth capacity in advance based on estimates of the traffic volume, but if the volume surpasses the control range in a sudden event, it will surely cause server overload and netizens can not visit websites in the normal way, so such traditional mode can create large resource waste, the operating risk factors will rise as well causing significant losses to enterprises. For bursty online traffic IT companies can contract out the acceleration services to specialized companies, otherwise service interruption can cause major damage to the operation or reputation of service providers.
Beijing Fastweb's streaming media solutions:
The problems presented so forth has troubled service providers, if the challenge of meeting sudden online video traffic is unresolved it can affect the business development of IT companies. After analyzing the operation difficulty and potential demand of IT industry, Beijing Fastweb has created pertinent and patented streaming media acceleration solutions, bringing much benefit to IT management and operation.
First of all, Beijing Fastweb proposed operation flow optimization solutions which are based on the current management system. It closely linked the operation approval process with the IT equipment management, entirely abandoning the lengthy and ineffective manual application, approval response and onsite maintenance that comprises the traditional procedures. The solution deploys digital equipments at each service nodes, and builds patented operation management platforms at the main service centers, so with the TCP/IP protocols the operation engineer can implement the ＾locally converging￣scheme for the service nodes. The operation people can then free themselves from the physical hassels of onsite repairs, instead they can maintain the system operation without stepping outside. This can not only help IT enterprises improve their response efficiency but also save a lot of time and labor costs.
With the IT industry facing the increasing appeal of video services, it is time to utilize "all-in-one" long range concentrated managing process to simplify the work flow, and converge the physically scattered CloudCDN server nodes virtually, thus achieving the goal of centralized supervision. Beijing Fastweb has integrated the operation system and network facility of the 150 service nodes within china, and included them all under the CloudCDN centralized control platform, thus effectively lowering the complexity of management while increasing the video websites' capability of handling high volume of streaming media distribution and management. Meanwhile Beijing Fastweb inc. ｀s CloudCDN technology has covered the servers, network equipments and storage areas, realizing complete centralized management.