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  Asked: Oct 8 2007   1:10 PM GMT
  Asked by: Rocketchicago


Internet TV


Bandwidth, Data transfer, Internet television systems

I have a client that wants to produce a daily 5 minute TV program on the Internet. If I stream the program, FLASH, how do I calculate the bandwidth or data transfer that I will need if I'm calculating 100,000 viewers a day?

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Hello,
On my website, I have an 8 minute flash video that is 13MB. Of course, your size may vary based on the resolution of the video.
Let’s say that your 5 minute video was 10MB, for easy calculations. Here is what I estimate:
10MB x 100,000 viewers x 31 days = 31,000,000MB or 31TB per month?? Wow, that seems like a lot but the math looks right to me.

What do you think?

While I have done some periodic flash videos on my website, I am interested in creating daily blog videos too. If you care to talk more about this, my blog info is below. You can contact me there.

David Davis
HappyRouter.com
Visit my Cisco Blog on ITKE
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