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Post by Sam Rahimi on Nov 28, 2013 17:28:21 GMT
ATTENTION PRIME! BROADCASTERS: In order to provide our live streaming customers with a greatly improved quality of service and their viewers with a dramatic reduction in latency and buffering, we will be changing some routes so that streams are served directly via the Internet backbones owned by Comcast, Verizon, Level3 and all other major ISPs. In non-technical terms, we are plugging in directly to the Internet and cutting out the middleman. We will be making the switch at exactly 3 PM EST, and while there will be no downtime, if you're in the middle of streaming, you may experience a disconnection and have to reconnect; should this occur, please ask your viewers to reload the page they're watching on after you've restarted your stream. Our apologies for the inconvenience, and know that after the switch you will likely be able to stream significantly higher bitrates (and HD resolutions) to a much wider audience than before... I hope to see all you guys pushing 1080p from your iPads this evening Please post all questions and comments in the thread below. Thanks, Sam Rahimi
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Post by Sam Rahimi on Nov 28, 2013 20:53:46 GMT
Upgrades are now completed and we've confirmed that the new routes have been picked up by all major DNS servers in US, Canada, and Europe (probably everywhere by now as well.) Please give your feedback on how your streams perform with these routing changes... we have delayed the taking of scientific measurements to confirm an improvement because loading time was reduced from "kinda long" to "blink of an eye" for all streams that we tuned into.
PS. To the competitor who was slowing down our streams on the old routes, thanks! We don't know who you are, we don't really care, and by bringing routing issues to our attention, we ended up making our product even faster and more secure than it already was. Keep playing dirty pool, guys... we'll just keep on building the best live streaming app EVER and treating our customers right.
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