Internet News Performance 9/11/2001
Of course, the “melt-down” was caused by the incredible demand for news after the attacks.
Unicast Streaming web sites suffered similar problems, at least from anecdotal evidence
By contrast, multicast performed well
- Large Increase in traffic
- Roughly 1 Gigabit per second saved at peak
- Over time, the multicast peering mesh degraded, but this was NOT due to increased traffic