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Winter Olympics Broadband Streaming Data From Europe

By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Mar 2006 09:04 PM PST

The European Broadcasting Union has released some data on online streaming in its member countries during the Winter Olympics held last month. The country broadcaster included in this were: ORF (Austria); TV2 (Denmark); ETV (Estonia); France Télévisions (France); Eurosport, Wanadoo (France, UK); ARD and ZDF (Germany); RUV (Iceland); RAI (Italy); NPB (Netherlands); NRK (Norway); TVP (Poland); SVT (Sweden) SF, TSR and TSI (Switzerland); and, BBC and Tiscali (United Kingdom).

-- By the end of the Games over 23 million live and on-demand video streams had been distributed over the Internet, amounting to some 400 terabytes of moving-image data delivered.

-- At peak time, over 45,000 concurrent streams were being viewed by Internet users in more than 35 countries within the Eurovision territory. Content was delivered to more than 1,500,000 individual viewers across the Eurovision territory in more than 10 different languages.

Posted in: Broadband, Countries, UK & Europe, Media, Sports, Digital Olympics


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