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CTech – Microsoft has introduced a brand new expertise for its Groups platform, Microsoft eCDN, developed by Microsoft Israel Analysis and Improvement. The brand new expertise will considerably enhance the standard of video streaming in large-scale stay broadcasts with out overloading the enterprise community and can enable organizations to carry streaming occasions for hundreds of thousands of customers concurrently.
The brand new expertise relies on the innovation developed at Peer5, an Israeli startup acquired by Microsoft final August. This expertise permits organizations to carry organization-wide coaching and City Halls, in a non-public, safe, and environment friendly method with out compromising the standard of the video or overloading the enterprise community.
eCDN (Enterprise Content material Supply Community) expertise can overcome bandwidth limitations and permits safe video streaming broadcasts to massive audiences. The browser-based expertise is the primary of its form to not require set up at endpoints.
The brand new expertise relies on WebRTC which operates inside the browser and improves bandwidth utilized by peer-to-peer networks. On this means, the expertise moderates the affect on the company community and on different enterprise functions working on the identical time. The corporate’s peer-to-peer networks stability themselves and broaden mechanically based on the rise within the variety of customers. The expertise doesn’t require any adjustments to the bodily community infrastructure and will be applied in a short time.
Moreover, it permits organizations to observe the standard of streaming and community efficiency in real-time, in addition to to establish and troubleshoot community errors throughout customers. The brand new expertise is built-in into Microsoft’s communication platforms and can be used on different streaming platforms.
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