So CERN have just held a popular webcast event to announce the latest results in the search for the Higgs. Many of the webcast viewers (no I don't have usage stats) were complaining that the stream was choppy. What I did notice on my laptop (couldn't get near the auditorium) was that the main libflashplayer traffic was inbound from 93.174.99.0/24 VELOCIX-EU - could this be the CDN used by Groovy Gecko?
Not having an onsite mirror though then meant that each member of staff watching was then pulling data *in* to site as the traffic graph shows:
I'm sure this can't be efficient... Ho Hum.
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