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YouTube has relied on Akamai to provide the streaming infrastructure for all of its live events so far, and as far as we know it has no live streaming infrastru
by abstractbill 17y ago
YouTube has relied on Akamai to provide the streaming infrastructure for all of its live events so far, and as far as we know it has no live streaming infrastructure of its own. Akamai costs a lot of money - we actually overflow to them when our own infrastructure gets overloaded, but we try not to do that too often as it's prohibitively expensive.
- pavs 17y ago"Live video is just something that we've always wanted to do, we've never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually do it this year." - Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube in 2008. I think they are relying on Akamai till their own setup is ready to go. I think the argument that Youtube don't/can't have live streaming infrastructure is quite silly.