Akamai Confirms They Are Delivering Apple's Live Stream

I've just spoke to someone at Akamai who has confirmed that they are delivering today's live stream of Steve Jobs's keynote. While there was a lot of talk about Apple delivering this event from their new data center in North Carolina, that's not happening, not yet at least. Apple will be bringing a lot of their content delivery in-house, but that won't happen overnight.

Update: The quality of the live stream has been pretty good, but towards the last 15 minutes of the event, my stream had a lot of stuttering for close to ten minutes. There were also a few instances where the stream skipped back a few seconds and repeated what had just been shown.

Comments

[Justin Stahl]

I had almost exactly the same experience; a few times near the end it simply stalled for a minute or two forcing me to reload the page.

[Tony Perez]

The stuttering and rewind effect happens often with QT X when the streams switch and the edge doesn't have all the latest sequence of the video in the bitrate it's switching to. Proving that Akamai has never done a QT X event of this magnitude.

[Mike]

Just wanted to relate one additional weirdness at the end - I wasn't able to start watching until the point they were showing the ipod commercials. Towards the end I saw the same stuttering. Then it cleared up, but it took me a second to realize I was now watching what must have been the beginning of the live cast, where people were just wandering in, seats half empty. I hit refresh and it went back to bad stuttering for a bit on Steve and the new Apple TV before I bailed. Wacky.