On Tuesday it was time for the second sales of tickets for the Olympics 2008. But this was more than anybody could have expect!
The BOCOG Ticketing Center had to stop the domestic ticket sales because of a communications jam. When the web site was opened for ticket sales on Tuesday morning eight million viewed the website in the first hour of sales, far exceeded the original system capacity to handle one million PVs per hour.
The ticket applications submitted reached 200,000 -- also overrunning the system capacity to process 150,000 per hour.
At the same time, there were more than 3.8 million phone calls to the ticketing hotline (+8610 952008) at the call center.
So, now BOCOG will try to improve the systems and reopen on November 5th.
There is a great interest for the Olympics also inside China. I will do a new attempt to get tickets for Carolina Klyfts final day - I already have for the other.....
The BOCOG Ticketing Center had to stop the domestic ticket sales because of a communications jam. When the web site was opened for ticket sales on Tuesday morning eight million viewed the website in the first hour of sales, far exceeded the original system capacity to handle one million PVs per hour.
The ticket applications submitted reached 200,000 -- also overrunning the system capacity to process 150,000 per hour.
At the same time, there were more than 3.8 million phone calls to the ticketing hotline (+8610 952008) at the call center.
So, now BOCOG will try to improve the systems and reopen on November 5th.
There is a great interest for the Olympics also inside China. I will do a new attempt to get tickets for Carolina Klyfts final day - I already have for the other.....
