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I think the streaming business is really interesting, I assume the reason Twitch (Amazon) is so successful is that they own their own infrastructure. Youtube is
by f00_ 9y ago
I think the streaming business is really interesting, I assume the reason Twitch (Amazon) is so successful is that they own their own infrastructure. Youtube is a competitor for the same reason.
Using Akamai/other CDNs is just crazy expensive, wonder what smashcast (formerly azubu and hitbox), Mixer (microsoft), AfreecaTV, and I assume there are some large chinese streaming sites use
Is this being used right now by Vimeo and Livestream?
I kind of get the use case, I wonder what the cost is like with traditional CDNs.
- whorleater 9y ago>Is this being used right now by Vimeo and Livestream? Vimeo (and Livestream) have their own distribution and do not use Mux.
- Heff 9y ago(Mux founder) That's correct. Vimeo and Livestream are customers of Mux's video performance monitoring, the product we built first and what's informing decisions in our video API.
- mmcclure 9y agoThis is a really good point. Particularly for Twitch, owning their own CDN has turned out to be a massive comparative advantage. From everything I've heard, they've also done an incredible job with relationships and peering agreements over the years to bring costs even lower, and I'm sure that's only gotten better with the weight of Amazon behind them. That being said, with solid relationships and a little scale behind you, the rate card starts dropping pretty quick. We ultimately use traditional CDNs for delivery, we just switch between those CDNs based on which one is going to provide the best experience for a given viewer. It makes a lot of sense for some teams to build out their own hardware/data centers/POPs at a certain scale, but I think we can all agree that's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly.