August 9, 2008

So I am currently watching the Olympic opening ceremony (which I will comment on shortly) and a stunning Nike ad comes on themed “Courage”. It’s a superb collage and obviously the ad agency that did this, hit it home… and then left a URL at the end.

So a couple of seconds later I went to it…. and sure enough Akamai was serving the video and clearly lots of people joined me in helping to choke the video stream. I can’t play the stream more than 5 seconds at a time.

CDNs have room to improve, clearly.

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