Comments on: AVChat 3 feature highlight: Dynamic Bandwidth Usage Reduction http://avchathq.com/blog/avchat-3-feature-highlight-dynamic-bandwidth-usage-reduction/ A blog about our products, and anything related Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:56:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Baylink http://avchathq.com/blog/avchat-3-feature-highlight-dynamic-bandwidth-usage-reduction/comment-page-1/#comment-6168 Baylink Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:42:00 +0000 http://www.avchathq.com/blog/?p=88#comment-6168 Excuse me: "contact@" Excuse me: “contact@”

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]]> By: Baylink http://avchathq.com/blog/avchat-3-feature-highlight-dynamic-bandwidth-usage-reduction/comment-page-1/#comment-6166 Baylink Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:12:15 +0000 http://www.avchathq.com/blog/?p=88#comment-6166 Well, adding servers is precisely the scenario I'm trying to provide support for -- there doesn't seem to be a 'formal' clustering package for red5 (one that makes it look like One Big Server, no matter what's inside) -- so I forsee us having to do the load balancing ourselves... and that's the pivot point: the opening of the stream. We haven't launched yet, but I can envision tens of thousands of talkers... if things go well, hundreds of thousands. Clearly, I will need to do some realtime load balancing. Possibly to media servers located in different places (and different places from the launching app server). Well, adding servers is precisely the scenario I’m trying to provide support for — there doesn’t seem to be a ‘formal’ clustering package for red5 (one that makes it look like One Big Server, no matter what’s inside) — so I forsee us having to do the load balancing ourselves… and that’s the pivot point: the opening of the stream.

We haven’t launched yet, but I can envision tens of thousands of talkers… if things go well, hundreds of thousands. Clearly, I will need to do some realtime load balancing. Possibly to media servers located in different places (and different places from the launching app server).

]]> By: Octavian Naicu http://avchathq.com/blog/avchat-3-feature-highlight-dynamic-bandwidth-usage-reduction/comment-page-1/#comment-6165 Octavian Naicu Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:01:52 +0000 http://www.avchathq.com/blog/?p=88#comment-6165 I am not sure that the optimization you want has as much effect as you think. There are many other optimizations that can be made until we reach that level. It might also be that adding server would be cheaper than researching, modifying the code, testing it across al our scenarios and deply it. If your website is absolutely dying and can not move forward because of that of that particular feature we can help you with it. The load balancing discussion is a big discussion. It depends on the media server youre using, what you are trying to achieve, where are your users located, etc... , please email us more details. I am not sure that the optimization you want has as much effect as you think. There are many other optimizations that can be made until we reach that level. It might also be that adding server would be cheaper than researching, modifying the code, testing it across al our scenarios and deply it.

If your website is absolutely dying and can not move forward because of that of that particular feature we can help you with it.

The load balancing discussion is a big discussion. It depends on the media server youre using, what you are trying to achieve, where are your users located, etc… , please email us more details.

]]> By: Baylink http://avchathq.com/blog/avchat-3-feature-highlight-dynamic-bandwidth-usage-reduction/comment-page-1/#comment-6164 Baylink Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:50:56 +0000 http://www.avchathq.com/blog/?p=88#comment-6164 Hmmm.. do you have any insights as to how much of the load on the media server comes from the mere *existence* of that incoming streaming channel being set up, and how much of it comes from the actual video? On a related question: since we're envisioning having to do our own load balancing, how much trouble would it be (read: how much would it cost us :-) to modify that particular section of code so the channel isn't actually opened until there are viewers... and so that we can specify *to which server it should point* at that time? We're licensed for chat, conference, and HDFVR, though I don't think the question really applies to the latter... Hmmm.. do you have any insights as to how much of the load on the media server comes from the mere *existence* of that incoming streaming channel being set up, and how much of it comes from the actual video?

On a related question: since we’re envisioning having to do our own load balancing, how much trouble would it be (read: how much would it cost us :-) to modify that particular section of code so the channel isn’t actually opened until there are viewers… and so that we can specify *to which server it should point* at that time?

We’re licensed for chat, conference, and HDFVR, though I don’t think the question really applies to the latter…

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