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I am a huge fan of what is often referred to as “The Beautiful Game”. This game I am referring to is also known as soccer (aka football outside of North America). I have season tickets to my local Major League Soccer team (Go Revolution!) and take any chance I get to see great teams play in great stadiums. I have seen El Classico in the Camp Nou (where...

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The most interesting things about these huge events like the World Cup or the Olympics or the Super Bowl and so on is in different countries in the world people tend to watch the content in different ways depending on who actually owns the content rights. Now the World Cup is not so far away and all of that has already been sorted,...

The 2014 World Cup is being hosted in Brazil. This means that many games will be played while soccer fanatics in Europe are asleep. With this timezone difference, how will the World Cup impact network traffic in Europe? Will streaming of the games after-the-fact cause traffic spikes at unusual times of the day? Per Held, Procera Developer, gives his...

The World Cup will be watched by millions of people in the next few weeks. If people aren’t able to visit Brazil and see the games live, many football fanatics will turn to streaming the event live to support their favorite team. How will this impact network traffic for the month of World Cup? Will your service provider be able to keep up with the demand...