Via Twitter, John Taylor, a “public policy guy” at Sprint, “tweeted” a few interesting facts about Sprint’s capacity during the Inauguration:
Just in: Data on Sprint’s performance during #inaug09. We broke records for a normal day of calls, SMS and data by 6:00 a.m.!
Sprint was the busiest between 11 ET & noon when traffic spiked 212% – 3X our normal traffic. Contd breaking records each hr til 3.
Text messaging on Sprint reached the hightest [sic] level between 11 & noon ET with an increase of 375% — 5X the normal le vel [sic] for DC. #inaug09
We were prepared to handle 10-15 times the number of people on a normal day in DC. Boosted Nextel by 90%; Sprint by %40. #inaug09.
And, humorously enough:
Thanks! I had just 1 dropped call yesterday. Of course it was during an interview with a reporter asking about our network.
While the transfer of power was peaceful, the transfer of data was less so. ComputerWorld reports that the Web sites of ABC, CBS, Fox Business, the L.A. Times, NBC, National Public Ratio, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Whitehouse.gov, Senate.gov, and for some reason, NPS.gov (the Web site of the National Parks Service) were experiencing significant slowdowns.
Mashable showed that there were over 600,000 status updates through CNN’s Facebook integration, with 4,000 people commenting on the Facebook CNN feed per minute during the broadcast, with “millions” of people logged into Facebook during the broadcast. CNN broke it’s all time total daily streaming record of 5.3 million live streams (set on Election Day 2008) with more than 21.3 million live video streams. At its peak, 1.3 mllion people were concurrently streaming.
To put 21.3 million live video streams into context, the YouTube Rick Roll site has only been seen 15 million times. To date.
(No wonder Obama’s appointing a national CTO – every time the guy opens his mouth, the Inter-Tubes get clogged…)
Research on this article was contributed by Chandra Hosek and Jordan Guthmann
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