Bored at work? Fancy watching some Golf? Now you can, courtesy of the Evian Masters 2007 being streamed live from Haute-Savoie in France.
The technical team behind this project is Paris based DBee and I had the pleasure of meeting some of the guys at my instructor exam at Adobe headquarters in London a couple of weeks ago. DBee is a company which has traditionally dealt with Windows and Real based streaming but who is transitioning towards live Flash video. A trend?

The technical details behind this event are as follows: streams are encoded with FME at 300kbps and sent to Akamai for delivery over their new Origin/Edge based FMS network. Broadcasts started this morning at 7:30AM Paris time and will run for 3 days. I had a quick peek and it played smoothly all the way.

Watch the stream live. (Windows Media also available, however I couldn't get that to work on my Mac ;)