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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by untog on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:56PM (#17527575)
> sending the same broadcast to millions of receivers. That's already an unusual requirement, though

Broadcast television isn't particularly unusual, surely. Millions of people watch live, primetime TV every day.

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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by blowski on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:45PM (#17528058)
In the UK, typical peak usage is around 5 million for the same program at the same time. The World Cup was more than 30 million.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by untog on Friday July 13, 2018 @11:17PM (#17528604)
Sure, but my point was that five million receivers is "millions of receivers", and is an everyday occurrence.
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Re:How the BBC and ITV are fixing delays on World Cup live s... by isostatic on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:15AM (#17529228)
This is a legacy way of consuming material. More and more are using on demand first.

However the use case of live sport - especially football in the uk - is massively different. This means the platforms have to scale to 20 million plus live streams (that's say 100tbit and 5 second latency) for a once in 4 year event.

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