![]() ![]() The main issue for vendors such as Peer5 is convincing major operators and media companies that P2P technology is perfectly safe, despite its reputation, as Le confirmed that prospective customers have many concerns that deploying a P2P infrastructure would lead to their own content being pirated. Le also revealed that parent company Vivendi runs an in-house CDN as well as using Limelight Networks, Level 3, and Verizon’s EdgeCast, and added that Dailymotion is more advanced than most streaming sites, as it has built an internal load balancing system for CDNs – allowing it to act as a sort of gatekeeper for how its content is delivered. Le added that while Vivendi could indeed pull in some additional assistance, Peer5 and Streamroot are the only two P2P vendors in place at Dailymotion, for now. “No CDN in the world has a million servers, yet Peer5 has over a million,” said Le. If a million people are watching the same stream simultaneously, for example, Peer5 will group them into what the company calls “swarms,” with individuals in each swarm then distributing content between each other, each essentially mimicking a server, instead of all 1 million viewers making HTTP requests directly from the edge server and causing congestion. This global, serverless infrastructure works in the opposite way to a traditional CDN, in that it becomes more efficient at optimizing traffic during peak times. It’s interesting then that Streamroot failed to mention this during our recent conversation, but the French firm has a bigger slice of Vivendi as it is handling CDN optimization of the CanalPlay SVoD service, as well as Dailymotion. Peer5’s Huan Le, who handles Business Development at the 5-year old firm, explained to us that there is no threat to Peer5’s deployment at Dailymotion, as both systems can sit on top of existing CDNs – adding more layers and therefore opening up additional lanes of traffic in peak times. The two companies are direct competitors, but the method of using a serverless P2P CDN for delivering video means that a customer such as Vivendi can employ as many P2P vendors as it wants, or can afford, to manage. ![]() So when an email landed in the Faultline Online Reporter inbox from a small P2P CDN company called Peer5, claiming that Vivendi’s video sharing site Dailymotion was among its customers, we recalled that just two months ago another P2P provider had made the very same claim, a French OTT technology start up called Streamroot. Unfortunately for the vendors, the technology is called peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh networking, and that name has long since been tarnished by content pirates. But what many aren’t aware of is that the technological foundations of this type of network are being developed and tweaked by start-up vendors which have already won deployments at some major media companies. With $2 million on the table, Mozilla has pointed to potential ideas like converting infrastructure such as old phone booths into WiFi hotspots. The aim is to bring connectivity to deprived areas across the globe, while making bandwidth savings for OTT video providers. The concept of a decentralized internet has been pushed into the mainstream by the likes of HBO’s comedy show Silicon Valley and by Mozilla announcing a $2 million reward fund for any ideas that will bring the construct to life. ![]()
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