Sunday, March 23, 2014

Brain dump

Here's an FOI factoid for you, about BBC online live streaming and catch-up of audio and video.

In 2013, 466 petabytes of data was transferred for live and on demand streaming media (both audio and video) to all devices across BBC Online.

We need some context (see - BBC trained !). According to futurist Raymond Kurzweil, the capacity of a human being's functional memory is estimated to be 1.25 terabytes. This means the memories of 800 human beings fit into one petabyte. So BBC Online delivered 372,800 brainfuls of data in 2013. Well done.

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