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DStv Now streaming records smashed by the Rugby World Cup final
In simpler terms, that’s equivalent to a full 4TB hard drive of data transferred every minute.
“Over the course of the day [of the final] we served more than half a million unique users,” the company added.
Multichoice notes that this was “double” the number of users compared to the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
That’s equivalent to a full 4TB hard drive of data transferred every minuteThis record didn’t come without issue, though. DStv Now’s slew of streaming issues experienced in the early days of the tournament left many users fuming on Twitter.
“We were disappointed at the problems we experienced early in the tournament,” said Niclas Ekdahl, Multichoice’s connected video CEO.
“We’d of course done load testing and provisioned plenty of capacity, but we didn’t anticipate how congestion in one specific system could cascade into others.”
Ekdahl notes that the company will be “ready for 10 times and even 100 times the traffic we’re seeing now” in the future.