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by jwandborg 2930 days ago
Could you elaborate on why WebRTC wouldn't "scale with CDNs"?
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WebRTC is stateful whereas dash/hls are HTTP based and stateless - caching with HTTP is easy and CDNs have a ton of infrastructure on the internet to support it.

Caching with WebRTC is very hard - even for a single second - since every connection is stateful.