"Google Inc's YouTube will stream the concert across five continents, and two replays will be available after the live feed – on www.U2.com and YouTube."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091020/en_nm/us_u2_youtube

any idea what the net net bandwidth requirements for type of event will be ??

For comparison, here are some numbers from a past live event:

<<Mogulus reports that YouTube had roughly 700,000 concurrent viewers during yesterday’s first YouTube live stream event, which featured people like Will.I.Am and Katy Perry (the San Francisco-based event featured music performances, comedy, and memes and popular people of YouTube). These stats aren’t precise, but based on public Akamai before/ after numbers during the time. Mogulus also reports that Google partnered with content delivery network Akamai to support all the users.>>

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-11-23-n21.html

thanks Philipp!

I think that this time, the estimates on concurrent is about 3M viewers.. and that is only for the NorthAmericas.. I am not sure what the status for EU / /FAREAST/ MEA.

this will certainly be interesting..