Re:455 Tb of live streaming were transferred during the Olym...
by Someone on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @05:39PM
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500GB = 4Tb, not 400Tb, so it would be 100,000 people watching for a few hours. Still not much.
However, I think they miscalculated. They also mention 30M hours of video watched at an average bit rate of 2Mbps. By my calculation that would make it (30 hours is around 100k seconds, so 30M hours is about 100G seconds) 200,000Tb. That's "more than 400Tb", yes, but also 500 times as much (check: that brings it up to 50M "watcher events", quite close to the 30M hours.)
Also, if I understand this correctly, this is for Brazil only, not worldwide ("Before starting, I would like to clarify that Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil.")
Given that and the fact that large parts of Brazil's population are poor, the 30M hours do not seem obviously wrong to me.
However, I think they miscalculated. They also mention 30M hours of video watched at an average bit rate of 2Mbps. By my calculation that would make it (30 hours is around 100k seconds, so 30M hours is about 100G seconds) 200,000Tb. That's "more than 400Tb", yes, but also 500 times as much (check: that brings it up to 50M "watcher events", quite close to the 30M hours.)
Also, if I understand this correctly, this is for Brazil only, not worldwide ("Before starting, I would like to clarify that Globo.com only had rights for streaming the content to Brazil.")
Given that and the fact that large parts of Brazil's population are poor, the 30M hours do not seem obviously wrong to me.