Re:The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
by wmf on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:53PM
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P2P is now slower and less reliable than conventional CDNs. This is a combination of bandwidth becoming cheaper, CDNs getting better (more locations, more peering, etc.), reliable always-on desktop PCs going away, etc.
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Re:The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
by GeneticGenesis on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @03:01PM
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I disagree. I've seen P2P outperform traditional CDNs many times, take a look at some of the data from Peer5 I linked below around improving the user experience.
P2P doesn't need "always on" boxes in large scale live stream scenarios, which is one of the use cases where it works best. I think we'll see a lot of growth in hybrid P2P/traditional CDN in the next couple of years.
Re:The Low Latency Live Streaming Landscape in 2019
by BigJono on Thursday February 07, 2019 @12:22AM
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The big problem with P2P is it doubles the bandwidth cost for the end user. Not a problem if we're talking desktops in countries that aren't 3rd world (or Australia). But most mobile plans still have strict bandwidth limits. If you have 10GB of data a month, do you want to use 1GB to stream a live event for a few hours, or 2GB?