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This sounds like Red Swoosh, a company Travis Kalanick (Uber CEO) started and was acquired by Akamai back in 2007. I was surprised that Akamai is a partner. Th

This sounds like Red Swoosh, a company Travis Kalanick (Uber CEO) started and was acquired by Akamai back in 2007. I was surprised that Akamai is a partner. They already do that... But anyways CDN is highly commoditized now and most big players are building their own solutions. What advantage do you offer? It does not seem like it would be a great solution for live streaming... Also this sounds like a perfect target for DDoS attacks...

shacharz 10y ago
Indeed Red Swoosh was probably one of the first P2P CDN companies, the main difference from them is the underlying technology - WebRTC enabling a seamless experience for the end user. CDN is still a very expensive business to bootstrap and most companies in the world rely on Akamai and Akamai like companies. We provide a few advantages over a traditional CDN: 1. Geographically ubiquitous distribution - wherever there's demand, there's capacity. 2. Improved user experience - since each user can download content both from the existing CDN and multiple other peers it can fetch that content faster and be less exposed to network conditions between it and the CDN's PoP 3. Scale - CDNs as big as they are, even Akamai have a limit, and this pronounces it self the most specifically in live events. Today's biggest live events over the internet has been single digit million concurrent users and they were using several CDNs at the same time. The potential of a P2P CDN is to bring TV scale events to the internet. Please elaborate how you think it can facilitate a DDoS?