3 ms·
The only numbers I have ever seen published are Whereby's[0] they saw 17% used TURN. There is a little more nuance then just paternalistic networks though. In
by Sean-Der 5y ago
The only numbers I have ever seen published are Whereby's[0] they saw 17% used TURN.
There is a little more nuance then just paternalistic networks though. In same cases like NAT Mapping exhaustion you just can't give an individual user multiple long lived mappings. Address Dependendent filtering/mapping also makes sense in some cases. It makes P2P harder, but does give you the ability to provide your users more sessions at least!
https://medium.com/the-making-of-whereby/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being-used-d67dbfc2ff5d https://medium.com/the-making-of-whereby/what-kind-of-turn-s...
- kwindla 5y agoWe see about the same numbers Whereby does at Daily, globally across our whole user base. Bounces around a little but is usually just under 20%. Way more for customers that are mostly serving corporate users, of course (firewalls). And more for mobile-heavy user populations. Actually, that's a good reminder that it would be nice to understand the mobile data networks breakdown in more detail. Most of the US mobile data networks require TURN, as far as I remember when I last looked at this. But I don't know if that's true everywhere in the world.
- Sean-Der 5y agoThat is awesome, thanks for sharing :) Lots of little details and they all effect each other. I really enjoy networking because of this. I wonder if we come back to this in 10 years what this number will be. Linux on the desktop and IPv6 is just around the corner...
- mekkkkkk 5y agoThinking about it, v4 addresses and oil have a lot in common. The exhaustion/depletion is coming, but we keep finding ways to circumvent it. For oil you got fracking and sand. For v4 you see wider adoption of wide/carrier-grade NAT. In both cases it temporarily solves the supply problem really effectively. However it also ruins the environment.