{"id":3116,"date":"2017-01-26T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/peer5-leverages-viewers-devices-for-a-p2p-approach-to-streaming-video.html"},"modified":"2017-01-26T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:20:22","slug":"peer5-leverages-viewers-devices-for-a-p2p-approach-to-streaming-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/peer5-leverages-viewers-devices-for-a-p2p-approach-to-streaming-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Peer5 leverages viewers\u2019 devices for a P2P approach to streaming video"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Anyone who\u2019s tried to watch a popular show like Game of Thrones<\/em> online has probably had moments where everything pauses and you\u2019re stuck watching a spinning wheel or blinking dots as the streaming service struggles\u00a0to handle viewer demand.<\/p>\n

Peer5<\/a>, one of the startups in the current class at incubator Y Combinator<\/a>, is working to solve this problem \u2014 in fact, it\u2019s already signed up customers like Premier League football (a.k.a. soccer), Sony and DailyMotion, and it\u2019s delivering video all over the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CEO Hadar Weiss (who co-founded the company with his CTO Shachar Zohar) compared traditional, centralized content delivery infrastructure to a highway: \u201cAt 3 a.m., there\u2019s no problem, you can drive 70 miles per hour and everything works well. At 3 p.m., the 101 is like a parking lot. What Peer5 does is, we add lanes. Even if you have a rush hour you can still drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

To do this, Peer5 uses WebRTC<\/a> technology to take a peer-to-peer approach to content distribution. In other words, each viewer\u2019s device could also be helping to push video to other viewers. So when there are more viewers, Peer5 has access to \u201cmore serving power,\u201d Weiss said. And the improved performance leads to longer viewing times.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re focusing on building the intelligence of that mesh network,\u201d Zohar said. While existing technology\u00a0can handle issues like security, Peer5 is trying to \u201cmake intelligent decisions on the connection that we made\u201d \u2014 it knows which users should be connected because they\u2019re watching the same program and are near each other.<\/p>\n

Weiss noted that this doesn\u2019t take the place of traditional CDNs like Akamai \u2014 instead, Peer5\u00a0adds another distribution layer on top. However, he said that there are moments when Peer5 is handling 98 percent of the load for a customer, which means the existing infrastructure is only responsible for 2 percent.<\/p>\n

While Weiss and Zohar have been working on the technology for the past four years, Weiss\u00a0said joining YC should help them with \u201cramping up to go to market and sell.\u201d The startup is also\u00a0releasing what its\u00a0most requested feature, support for Android apps.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s 2017,\u201d Weiss added. \u201cIt\u2019s time to take this shared economy approach to the CDN space.\u201d<\/p>\n

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