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Great breakdown on why SFUs are the go-to for real-time video.
From what we’ve seen at scale, just throwing an SFU at the problem only gets you so far. Once you move past small calls into big broadcast-style scenarios, things get tricky fast. In practice it usually looks like:
Up to ~50–100 people: plain SFU works fine
Hundreds: you start needing regional or cascaded SFUs
Thousands+ viewers: WebRTC ingest feeding transcoding and then CDN distribution
Simulcast or SVC is huge here too. Without adaptive layers, your SFU can hit a bandwidth wall fast.
Curious if the author has experience with cascading SFU architectures or edge SFU deployments?
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Great breakdown on why SFUs are the go-to for real-time video.
From what we’ve seen at scale, just throwing an SFU at the problem only gets you so far. Once you move past small calls into big broadcast-style scenarios, things get tricky fast. In practice it usually looks like:
Simulcast or SVC is huge here too. Without adaptive layers, your SFU can hit a bandwidth wall fast.
Curious if the author has experience with cascading SFU architectures or edge SFU deployments?