Comcast preaches new approach to streaming live events NBCU taps Fastly’s delivery software Striking similarities with previous Qwilt deal “Millions of viewers arriving at the same moment” sounds like a classic CDN problem we have heard a thousand times before. Modern CDNs are designed for exactly these thundering herd moments in live sports, so with US operator Comcast employing a supposedly “new” approach to streaming live events with high user concurrency on Peacock, we need to establish what bottlenecks are being hit, and how. Unfortunately, Comcast/NBCUniversal’s press department has all the efficiency of a dial-up modem. What we do know is that NBCUniversal has deployed content and application delivery software from California-based edge cloud provider Fastly to improve delivery efficiency (including reduced latency)…