Yesterday was the day of the Michael Jackson Memorial. This event was broadcasted from Staples center in Los Angeles. Multiple broadcasters aired the memorial on TV and a huge number of outlets (and here) also used streaming to cover the memorial on the web.

ZDNet has an overview of the amount of data transferred and refers to the Akamai statistics page. They also compare the data exchanged during this event to the recent Obama inauguration. …So far, it looks like the Obama stream record is safe….

Kevin Towes, product manager for the Flash Media Server announces the availability of the “Large Scale Deployment Guide”.

Kevin comments on the origin of this guide : This guide assembles the knowledge of our support, escalation, docs, engineers and everyone who has touched CDN deployments. We culminated all the information into a recommendation guide for customers to educate themselves on the decisions and options available to successfully integrate and scale FMS in their network.

Kevin also added a nice goody in his blog entry: Today, We have also released a new free sample application called LiveStreamCast 1.0 – providing you with the foundation to deliver a live streams across a cluster of Flash Media Servers – simulating the technology found in the Edge server configuration.

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