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
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
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.
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
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
CDN Artear Chooses Peer5 and Explains Why At Peer5, working with our customers to help them reach their goals is our #1 priority. We work closely with our clients and try learn more about their entire tech stack, their pain points and their plans going forward, so that we can help them move forward. One of our
Apple Apple Announces Support for WebRTC in Safari 11 Update 6/7: Today Apple released a formal announcement A couple of days ago at WWDC, Apple confirmed something that those of us in the WebRTC developer community have speculated about for over a year - that WebRTC will be incorporated into the newest version of Safari (Safari 11) which
mobile Our new Android SDK We’re very pleased to introduce our Native Android SDK to the world. For us, this release is a big deal. It’s the #1 most requested feature from our customers. And this is obvious since Android is by far the world’s most popular operating system. Our new high-performance
HLS Last Call For Flash Player This week is the last call for Adobe’s Flash Player. While this shouldn’t come as a surprise, if you haven’t prepared for what’s about to happen, it’s probably time to start. What’s Happening? Starting with Chrome 55 (which Google plans to release this December)
HLS Flash Is Dying In December: Long Live HTML5 Video Player TL;DR: if you play HLS, it’s time to add MSE playback Adobe’s Flash Player is going the way of the Dodo, but its extinction is not cause for concern. Flash Player has been a huge problem for years, and its ultimate demise will be celebrated by most
UK broadcaster pairs Peer5 with Flussonic streaming software to achieve new levels of performance One of the great things about working at Peer5 is that we’re trying to solve some pretty interesting technical challenges. This comes with the territory when your corporate mission statement is to “create the world’s largest CDN without deploying a single server”. We’re very ambitious and technical
Another Super Bowl, Another Streaming Miscue Another year of record video streaming for the Super Bowl brings another year of broken streams. On the biggest stage in America, the CBS live stream averaged 1.4 million viewers a minute. Viewers live streamed more than 402 million minutes of Super Bowl 50 coverage. While these huge numbers
Live Streaming Live Sports and 4k 4k is a hot topic in the techy world. It delivers image quality that hasn’t been seen before in most households and the buzz is growing as 4k TV sets are now available from most of the major TV manufacturers. People are particularly excited about seeing sports on 4k
How To Deal With The Unpredictable Demand Of Live Sporting Events In a previous post, Fans Want To Stream Live Sports But Is The Industry Ready? we referred to one of the key challenges in ensuring a high quality viewing experience when streaming live sporting events... One of the key challenges is ensuring a high quality viewing experience, no matter the
Cricket Fans Want To Stream Live Sports But Is The Industry Ready? Earlier this year, in February, India played Pakistan in a Cricket World Cup match. For those of you who don’t follow cricket, you may be surprised to hear that the match was watched on television by over 1 billion people (yes, that is billion with a “b”). As a
5 Reasons the video world is moving to js-based delivery Over the last few years, Netflix, YouTube and others have been pushing Media Source Extensions (AKA MSE) as an HTML5 video API for JavaScript (and Dash). This has been a significant development for HTML5 video, after years of domination by Flash players. Now, this year, Javascript (JS) is driving the
