Is AJAX the key to reduce bandwidth?
Tuesday, January 17, 2006 by Jason
According to Macrumors.com, they only need to serve 32 GB with AJAX during the keynote adress, if they didn't use AJAX, they would need to serve 6 times as much data, 196 GB!!!!
We peaked at approximately 103,000 simultaneous web visitors and 6,000 IRC viewers during the Keynote speech and transmited over 32 GB of data in a three hour period. If not for the efficiency of the MacRumorsLive AJAX update system, the same webcast would have required approximately twice as many servers and would have had to transfer almost 6 times as much data (196 GB).
