What’s the big story of these olympics besides Silverlight enjoying a nice boost in user adoption? How about the folks behind all of the streaming videos, Limelight Networks?
Amongst all the hype, bits of high level information can be found at:
Limelight Networks: Why the Olympics didn’t ‘Melt’ the Internet. Ironically, this is from the same group with the original dramatized predictions.
Others at:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9693
http://www.contentinople.com/document.asp?doc_id=158320&page_number=2
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10003752-56.html?hhTest=1
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2008-08/limelight-networks-interview-streaming-the-olympics/
Albeit, this #2 CDN has had its legal troubles and not many papers are published revealing infrastructure details (as opposed to Akamai).