Internet traffic hit a record peak at the start of President Obama’s speech, according to Bill Woodcock, of Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit organization that analyzes online traffic.
Akamai Technologies Inc. said 7.7 million people watched video streams on streams from their CDN. Limelight Networks said 2.5 million people watched the inauguration using their bandwidth.
CNN.com is reporting 8 million streams through 11:10am, breaking a previous record of 5.3 million on Nov 4th.
Thanks @brianstelter for the twitter tip.
Update: CNN said it provided more than 21.3 million video streams over a nine-hour span and a peak of 1.3 million concurrent live streams.
Mogulus – who carried streams for CSPAN and Gannett – reported that the site had broken its own record by clocking in 100,000 simultaneous viewers.