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by JoeAltmaier 4142 days ago
We do p2p communications. A big issue is network interruption. Somebody walks around with a laptop or mobile device, roams, link broken and a gap in your experience as it scrambles to reroute. Or somebody else in the house starts to use the network, and your negotiated link drops available bandwidth/congests.

If its free or just for fun, then yes you can go this route. But people paying for an experience are, in our experience, intolerant of any interrupt or quality drop.
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Rodi 4142 days ago
Networks interruptions happen a lot, this is why our system is hybrid: if you didn't have time to get the segment from the peer-to-peer, you dynamically switch back to the CDN to get the missing parts of your video segments, so in practice the quality can't be worse than what you have with the CDN only.
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JoeAltmaier 4142 days ago
I have to wonder at the claim of no added latency then? By the time the peer fails, and the CDN is queried and responds, the replay stream would have passed the point where it needed that frame. Unless the reassembly/replay engine is running substantially behind realtime.
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