68000 listeners !!!

[Martydee]

Hi there, this is truly hyperthetical. What's the chances of my station having 68000 listeners all at the same time - what would the cost be if it was possible and what about band width how would that be effected. Please be aware I know there's no chance of that ever happening but I do wonder what it would take.

Cheers all you techy peeps
Mdd

 

[Support]

Hi Martydee,

Yes, as you said its very unlikely that an internet radio station would hit 68,000 concurrent listeners.

This would consume huge amounts of bandwidth and you also have to consider what bitrate you were streaming at and how long for. Obviously if this was at say 320kbps instead of say 128kbps, it would consume near enough 3 times the amount.

As an example, if you were streaming for 1 hour at 128kbps to 1000 listeners, then this would use up 54.93GB. So times that by 68 this is 3.73TB per hour. That's a whole lot of bandwidth.

We have a bandwidth calculator that you may find useful for working this out: http://www.internet-radio.com/servers/tools/bandwidth/

 

[General Lighting]

Some German professors with the help of telecoms companies elsewhere in Northern Europe have already done all the hard maths for us; and even better have shared their findings for all, courtesy of the EBU. The report is 20 pages long but is in English.

LTE is what a 3/4G mobile phone service is correctly known as by telecoms companies.

I've attached both the file and posted the link, they are copyright of the EBU but on a public site.

http://www3.ebu.ch/files/live/sites/ebu/files/Advocacy/Digital Radio/Broadcast or Broadband.pdf