The maximum transfer amount of BBC at the London Olympic Games is 2.8 petabytes, the instant maximum transfer amount is 700 Gb / sec

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The London Olympic Games ended on August 12th and Japan won 38 medals, the largest number ever. Although I think that there are not many people heading to the television at midnight or early in the morning to see live broadcast of football and athletics, BBC, the British broadcasting station, covered the entire Olympic Games with the site and live streaming, We announced that the maximum transfer volume per day has reached 2.8 petabytes on the most accessed day. The instant maximum record was 700 gigabits per second (87.5 GB).

BBC - BBC Internet Blog: The story of the digital Olympics: streams, browsers, most watched, four screens

At this Olympics, BBC decided to "convey the situation of all the competitions being held at all venues" as a convention with viewers and actually achieved it. From BBC's website and digital broadcasting to the one that belongs to minor competitions like competition from worldwide attention to Usain · Bolt record like 100 m final such as TaekwondoBBC Red ButtonEverything was covered by.

The graph shows the blue color related to the BBC site, the red color is related to the Red Button, the bar graph shows the number of unique users, and the line graph shows the cumulative number of users.


オリンピック期間中、イギリス国内で最も注目が高まった(http://bbc.co.uk/にアクセスが集まった)のは8月1日、自転車競技の男子個人タイムトライアルが行われた日です。7月28日に行われた男子個人ロードレースでは地元イギリス勢はツール・ド・フランス総合優勝者のブラッドリー・ウィギンスや同じくツールで活躍するマーク・カヴェンディッシュらを擁していましたが、最高位は29位に終わっていました。

In the time trial, that wiggin went on a rush, ran for 44 km at 50, 39, 54, and won the gold medal.

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The transfer volume on August 1 reached 2.8 petabytes (about 2867 TB), and at the moment Wiggins won the gold medal, 700 Gb (87.5 GB) of communication occurred every second. By the way, you can see how much British citizens were excited by saying that this "2.8 petabytes" number exceeded the transfer amount of BBC's total coverage in the 2010 World Cup.

Streaming transfer amount on August 1st. There were six streams, swimming competitions etc were seen in the morning, but from around noon it appears that everyone is concentrating on cycling competitions. The soccer live broadcast at night is also quite good.


In terms of the popularity of live streams, the tennis singles final is ranked 1st. Men are Andy Murray in the UK and Serena Williams in the USA won gold medals for girls. The second place was the bicycle men's individual time trial, the third place was the tennis singles semi-finals, the fourth place was the men's personal road race, and the fifth place was the women's seven species competition (Jessica Ennis in the UK won the gold medal). As for popular football in domestic sports, Britain was lost in the quarterfinals, so it seems that after that the number of people who watched has decreased.

Here is a graph showing how many people are watching these information. Gray is PC, yellow is internet compatible TV, light blue is mobile terminal, purple is tablet. From this graph, a businessman seems to be able to see the situation that the company checks the situation of the Olympic Games on a PC and watches on a TV or tablet when he gets home.