{"id":26968,"date":"2016-11-10T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T01:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=26968"},"modified":"2016-11-10T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T01:45:49","slug":"u-s-presidential-election-largest-news-event-delivered-akamai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/11\/10\/u-s-presidential-election-largest-news-event-delivered-akamai\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Presidential election is largest news event delivered by Akamai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The media coverage of yesterday\u2019s U.S. Presidential Election was the largest single news event Akamai Technologies, Inc. has ever helped its customers deliver, according to the company.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26969\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26969\" class=\"size-large wp-image-26969\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Image credit: Akamai\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai-84x55.jpg 84w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Akamai.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong><em>Image credit: Akamai<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Live video streaming traffic specific to the election peaked at 7.5 Tbps on the Akamai Platform shortly before midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 8<sup>th<\/sup>, eclipsing previous news events, and placing it among the highest video traffic peaks for any individual event delivered by Akamai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn what has already been a record-setting year for live streaming with the European soccer finals, Rio and the recent Presidential debates, Akamai has again helped our customers deliver unprecedented levels of online video with last night\u2019s election coverage,\u201d said Bill Wheaton, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Media at Akamai. \u201cNot only are more people watching online in general, they\u2019re watching at higher quality, which contributes to the increasingly higher peaks in traffic that we\u2019re observing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday also marked the inauguration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.akamai.com\/us\/en\/about\/news\/press\/2016-press\/akamai-opens-broadcast-operations-control-center.jsp\">Akamai\u2019s Broadcast Operations Control Center (BOCC)<\/a> in a Presidential election. Numerous customers took advantage of the dedicated facility, technical staff and services for real-time support and deep operational insight that is critical to successfully delivering live events.<\/p>\n<p>From an historical perspective, Election Day traffic on Akamai in 2004 peaked at a relatively modest 21 Gbps. The 2009 Obama inauguration reached 1.1 Tbps and the Royal Wedding in 2011 hit 1.3 Tbps. More recently, the first 2016 Presidential debate peaked at 4.4 Tbps in September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media coverage of yesterday\u2019s U.S. Presidential Election was the largest single news event Akamai Technologies, Inc. has ever helped its customers deliver, according to the company. Live video streaming traffic specific to the election peaked at 7.5 Tbps on the Akamai Platform shortly before midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday, November 8th, eclipsing previous news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1576,2104,4898],"class_list":["post-26968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-akamai-technologies","tag-elections","tag-us-presidential-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}