Today, for the first time in the better part of a decade, Appel will livestream the keynote for a major event. Why now? That’s a very good question. A tipster tells CultofMac that this is an exercise to test their new server farm in North Carolina. According to their tip, “the goal is to monitor traffic load and quality.”
This actually makes a huge amount of sense. It would be a trial by fire for their ability to get streaming content reliably out to hundreds of thousands of users, which might happen regularly if they do move to cloud based streaming media.
The event today will be broadcast via HTTP Live Streaming. If you want to know if you can view it, try this demo link provided by Apple.
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if i just sat through 30 mins of Bip Bops, does that mean i am good to go at 1PM Eastern??? j/k i know i can watch it, but i really did sit here for a half hour. ok ok, im still kidding it was only 15 mins….
Would be a great way to test bandwidth.
Went ok for me. A little hiccup here and there. Watched on my iPhone over wifi.