- Variety, Wednesday, June 18, 2014 2:26 PM
The 2014 FIFA World Cup is still in its opening round, but the soccer tourney has already broken the
record for peak amount of online-video streaming bandwidth as delivered by Akamai Technologies, and also set new
high-water marks for ESPN’s and Univision’s digital-video
services. Monday’s Germany-Portugal match drove a peak of 4.3 terabits per second of streaming video on Akamai’s content-delivery network, blowing past the previous high of 3.5
Tbps as measured for the U.S.-Canada men’s hockey semifinal during the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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