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by irq-1 1478 days ago
WebRTC is used by phenixrts as the delivery from server to client. The promise of WebRTC was P2P direct connections for video/data transport, and server/client for coordination and fallback.

https://phenixrts.com/en-us/faqs.html

> The scalability of Phenix’s platform does not come from the protocol itself, but from the systems built and deployed to accept WebRTC connections and deliver content through them. Our platform is built to scale out horizontally. In order to serve millions of concurrent users subscribing to the same stream in a short period of time, resources need to be provisioned timely or be available upfront.

https://webrtc.org/

> With WebRTC, you can add real-time communication capabilities to your application that works on top of an open standard. It supports video, voice, and generic data to be sent between peers...