http://ycorpblog.com/2006/09/11/five-years-later/ Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:05:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://ycorpblog.com/2006/09/11/five-years-later/comment-page-1/#comment-638 Jason Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:24:50 +0000 http://yodel.yahoo.com/2006/09/11/five-years-later/#comment-638 Yahoo! also had its first very large live streaming event with 9/11. Broadcast.com had done many big live events, both consumer and enterprise-related, but this day marked a huge day for Yahoo!'s integration and the now-defunct FinanceVision. Instead of pushing out tickers and opinion, the anchors were taking live news feeds and commenting as best they could as to what they saw. Streaming servers were much less robust as well in those days, and our capacity outbound -- if I remember correctly, about 3 Gbps -- was filled. Yahoo! also had its first very large live streaming event with 9/11. Broadcast.com had done many big live events, both consumer and enterprise-related, but this day marked a huge day for Yahoo!’s integration and the now-defunct FinanceVision. Instead of pushing out tickers and opinion, the anchors were taking live news feeds and commenting as best they could as to what they saw. Streaming servers were much less robust as well in those days, and our capacity outbound — if I remember correctly, about 3 Gbps — was filled.

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