The fourth annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be streamed live over the internet through ESC-TV, using Octoshape's peer-to-peer technology (P2P).
This follows the successful collaboration between the European Broadcasting Union and Octoshape for a live webstream experiment of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest in Athens, last May. Encoding was performed by EBU Eurovision. The 2006 Eurovision Song Contest was 'peercasted' across the internet in order to experiment with P2P technologies and compare them with traditional technologies, such as CDN and unicast.
In spite of the fact that the online stream was not widely publicised, almost 75,000 people from more than 130 countries watched the show through the internet.
For the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, ESC-TV was 'peercasted' at 700kbps, but 200kbps and 450kbps were also available. The 2006 edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on 2 December.
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