[ponker]

This isn’t for consumer streaming — those people will still use Twitch. This is for people building things like corporate meeting software for which the users will never be close to 20,000 concurrent and the costs of $30k don’t even get looked at.

[hmmazoids]

Yup agreed -- looking at it from the lens of building a streaming website that scales to that many viewers per stream, it isn't going to be cheap (but cool it can handle it if you put the money in I guess).

I assume this is more targeted towards universities where they have a max of 300 students (at least that's what my university capped classes at) and they need something to get started quickly. At most they may stream for like 6 hours a day for each class. You don't even need good quality -- lowest tier quality (SD) ends up being

$2.00 per hour * 6 = $12 $0.0375 per hour * 6 * 500 = $67.50

Honestly ~$80-100 per day to stream to all your students? Still kinda expensive I guess but might be a small price to pay for a university if it means they can offer streaming education. Not to mention 99% of the time students don't even tune in and just watch the VOD.