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Context: ex-early-twitch engineer.

The economics on this are confusing to me; if they’re hosting a “repeater”, they’re paying for bandwidth in/out, and that’s expensive.

If the streaming software is sending to multiple locations; the stability will be low (assuming folks become outbound b/w limited from their home conn).

Am I missing something obvious here?

At twitch we needed a heck of a lot of interconnecting with various providers to make our service viable.

Edit: https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ - goes someway toward answering my q.



Huh? They're not streaming to thousands of viewers - they're just forwarding to a few services. That's nothing.


Oh, right! I was obvi missing something simple. You’re right, my b: they only relay to a few services so it’s keep their costs low.

I guess I’m just so conditioned to think about video going direct to consumer that I missed that.

Sorry for the noise :)




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