Re: March 29, 2006 total eclipse - IT admin's WORST NIGHTMARE

jameshanley39_at_yahoo.co.uk
Date: 10/12/05 

Date: 12 Oct 2005 08:47:28 -0700

Owl Jolsen wrote:
> In less than 6 months, we will be one of several online media companies
> webcasting the total solar eclipse from Africa, on 29th March, 2006. This
> will be during the working hours in Europe.
> For corporate IT admins in Europe, this will be their WORST NIGHTMARE
> come to life. We are working on and improving our system in sucha way that
> corporate IT admins in Europe will not be able to stop people from watching
> the eclipse without shutting down the ENTIRE NETWORK. We will be using a
> heavily encrypted feed, so that any IT admins that try to sniff the packets
> wont get anything. As somoene said once "The book will be open, but the
> pages will all be in an unreadble language".
> We will be running an ecnrypted link over port 80. There is NO WAY that
> can be shut down without cutting off ALL web access to the network. We are
> taking a cue from Kazaa, and P2P services, and are using encrypted links
> over port 80, which admins will be unable to stop without shutting down the
> entire network.
> As far as eclipses go, this will be the longest, as far as totality goes,
> since one of our competitors began webcasting eclipses way back in 1997.
> Where we plan to he webcasting from, it will be at about 10:45 AM British
> Summer Time, 11:45 in Central Europe (Europe goes to Summer Time on Sunday,
> 26th March).
> Basically, people will be watching the eclipse, and gobbling down HUGE
> amounts of bandwidth. We plan to offer feeds up to 100K in bitrate, and that
> will add up fast. Users will be clogging the network watching the eclipse,
> and corporate IT admins will have no CLUE as to what is going in, becusae the
> feeds will be encrypted.
> The REAL nightmare scenario on this for IT admins, will be in the year
> 2009, when we will be webcasting a total solar eclipse with 6 minutes and
> 38 seconds of totality from Shanghai, China, on 22nd July, 2009. For nearly
> 7 minutes, poeple will be clooging network bandwidth all over Asia, and
> becuase it will be encrypted, admins will never know that people are watching
> the solar eclipse. It will also being during the workday in Australia, so
> Australian admins will also wonder why the bandwidth usage is going so high.

an administartor's main concern is to make sure the computer's are
running ok. Not to make sure that workers don't pick their noses or
watch the eclipse.

Anyhow, who the heck watches eclipses nowadays anyway? except
astronomers, school children, and the bored/unemployed.

It can be blocked, but most admins probably won't bother. It's not
their concern. It's not their responsibility if ppl don't want to work.

Anyhow. you ever think that maybe the boss or manager, or in your
scenario, the IT person couldn't walk past the computers during those 6
minutes?

Besides, do you really get so excited about an eclipse? (given that
you're an adult and you're not an astronomer)

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