Peer5 Blog

Peer5 Joins Microsoft

We are thrilled to announce that Peer5 has been acquired by Microsoft. It has been quite a journey and I’m extremely proud of our team and what we’ve accomplished. Guy, Shachar and I started the company in 2012 with a vision to decentralize the web and video streaming

analytics

How Peer5’s Analytics Tools Provide Insight Into P2P Efficiency and UX, Both Past and Present

Learn how to use Peer5's range of analytics tools to keep tabs on your network and refine your corporate broadcasts.

Corporate Communications

The return to work is officially underway

Peer5’s unique position as the ECDN video conferencing provider for many Fortune500 companies gives us a unique perspective on the return to the office.

ECDN

Connecting 50,000 BMW Employees

Discover how Peer5 and Streamlab stream all-hands meetings to BMW Munich's 50,000 employees.

P2P

How to use Peer5’s no-install silent tester to assure the perfect execution of company-wide broadcasts

Learn how to ensure perfect corporate-wide video comms using the new Peer5 Silent Tester.

Corporate Streaming

Effective peer-to-peer delivery for corporate VOD content

On-demand video streaming has become very important for corporate communication. There are training videos, HR orientation videos, and of course archived meetings. The events of this year have accelerated the digital transformation of many businesses by demonstrating that asynchronous communication is critical. That’s where video on demand (VOD) fits

Corporate Streaming

How to Configure Your VPN to Ensure Successful Corporate Video Events

VPNs are nothing new, but they’re making a huge comeback in these wacky days of COVID-19. This gives us an opportunity to talk a little bit about how a company’s virtual private network (VPN) might negatively impact their ability to stream video, and, in the process, recommend a

ECDN

Corporate Video Tsunami

Explosion of corporate video Covid-19 forced enterprises to switch quickly from physical to virtual meetings. What was the effect of this abrupt change in terms of actual video consumption? The growth we’ve seen so far is massive. Here’s an example from one of our customers, and it represents

Webcasting

Scaling your webcasting infrastructure during the WFH era

The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced most organizations to transition to remote working. As most employees are now working from home, the need for robust collaboration and internal communication tools has never been greater. In this post, we focus specifically on how to successfully execute town hall meetings, or any

Enterprise

Peer5 vs other ECDN technologies

The problem Today, companies rely on cloud-based video platforms to stream content to their employees. Unfortunately, regardless of how strong the cloud infrastructure may be, stream quality and concurrent viewership are bound by the capacity of the office ISP connection which quickly becomes saturated during large video events. There’s

mobile

Predictions for video streaming in 2020

Disney+ and the streaming wars were all the rage in 2019 and this occupied much of the industry’s mindshare. Cord-cutting will still be important in 2020, but if you ask me what’s going to be new and exciting next year, OTT is not the answer. The new decade

Microsoft Edge

Microsoft Edge is now Peer5 supported!

Back in 2013, Google and Mozilla were excited to report the first WebRTC call between Chrome and Firefox. By 2015, Edge supported WebRTC calls as well. But for us, the missing piece was the DataChannels -- the API that we use to send arbitrary chunks of data between WebRTC clients.

CDN

How CDN Switching Blind Spots Lead To Rebuffering

Reducing video rebuffering is hard. As discussed in our last blog post, monitoring your 95th percentile metrics can make it easier to detect anomalies, but what about prevention? One solution that many people are talking about these days is moving to a multi-CDN architecture. But will going multi-CDN magically reduce

MultiCDN

If you care about video quality, then you need to look at the 95th percentile

The perfect CDN would be able to send an unlimited amount of data with very little latency to every HTTP client that is connected to its servers no matter where those clients are physically located. Obviously, there is no perfect CDN just as there is no perfect wireless operator that

Introducing Peer5 MultiCDN

In 2012 we started Peer5 with the mission to solve the scalability issues intrinsic to CDNs by decentralizing online video delivery. From the start, we focused on enabling peer-to-peer streaming of live content helping providers increase capacity tenfold or more. We proved that peer-to-peer can work at scale, for premium

2019

5 predictions for video streaming in 2019

2018 was a transformational year for video streaming and the media industry in general with the biggest companies making huge investments in both content and technology. A key driver was live sports where players like Amazon, Google, and Facebook conducted some big “experiments” but where other services like Hulu, DAZN,

World Cup

2B Minutes, 112M views served over Peer5's P2P network during the 2018 World Cup

On the sports level, the 2018 World Cup was simply fantastic. Great football (soccer/futbol) was played. There were many surprises, wins by underdogs, some amazing goals and an awesome competitive spirit. Impressive and inspiring performances by Croatia, England, Belgium and obviously France. For the streaming industry, the 2018 World

SF VideoTech Talk: new streaming records

This Thursday, I gave a presentation at the SF Video Meetup on Peer5’s experience with streaming the 2018 Fifa World Cup. The video is going to be published in a few days, but here's some context: The World Cup has been amazing so far, with tons of drama, surprises

Live Sports

10 ways to avoid CDN issues at peak

In video streaming, it’s good to be a victim of your own success. At least, it’s better than having no viewership at all. Perhaps you’re using a world-class CDN and, yet, some of your users are still not enjoying a good streaming experience, especially during large live

encryption

Practical Approaches for Securing Your Video Streams

Content protection has been a major issue since the beginning of the digital era and its importance is only growing. Today, services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video, Spotify, Apple Music etc base their entire business model on the delivery of digital media to end users. The more securely these services

NAB

Peer5 is going to NAB

Peer5 will be at NAB next week! Come see us in the South Upper Hall at booth 6921 (SU 6921) to learn about the latest advancements in peer-to-peer streaming. Follow this Link to Schedule a Meeting @ NAB The Peer5 team will be in attendance, led by co-founders Hadar Weiss and

What is a "Serverless CDN"?

We coined the term “Serverless CDN” back in 2012 when we founded Peer5. It refers to to the fact that no servers are involved in the delivery of video through our network. However, this term is a bit of a misnomer as we don’t want to completely get rid

android

Peer5 releases iOS and Smart TV SDKs

It’s 2018 and we are pleased to announce the GA release of our Android SDK which is now available to all of our customers! We’re also launching the beta of our Apple iOS / tvOS SDK and several Smart TV and connected device SDKs that users can now sign

You favourite show is on another platform: endless streaming services and frustrated consumers

Netflix Hulu HBO GO Amazon Video CBS All Access Disney [TBA Service] Filmstruck Fandor Mubi Kanopy Starz Acorn BritBox Shudder Crunchyroll Funimation Boomerang Curiosity Stream Brown Sugar Section II Yaddo PBS Anywhere Dekkoo Spuul YouTube TV Sling Philo DirectTV FuboTV Playstation Vue VRV Since the meteoric success of Netflix, it

Akamai's Peer-To-Peer Love Story

At IBC 2017 in Amsterdam, Akamai’s Jim Ewaskiew - currently their Sr. Product Line Director, formerly Director of Digital Content at Turner Networks - casually mentioned that Akamai is getting back into the business of peer-to-peer video streaming. For those who follow the streaming industry, this probably doesn’t