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Discussion on: Why Video Chat is a Hard Technical Problem

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Patrick Schoeps

Thanks for writing this post. We are currently using Twilio Programmable Video to service a large low income population, often connecting on older devices and a medium or weak connection. A lot of your issues resonate with me, even though we skipped to a hosted solution! Currently we are achieving about a 85% connection rate among these individuals, at about 300 calls a day. And it took an incredible amount of work and optimization just to get here! Video streaming is hard, and I think we have a ways to go before it's really accessible.

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Kimberlee Johnson

Hi, Patrick! I work at daily.co, and we're working on solving these realtime video problems. If you haven't already checked us out, feel free to have a look and please let me know if I can help with anything!