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WebRTC Bandwidth Estimation: Why Your Call Downgrades Before It Drops

WebRTC Bandwidth Estimation: Why Your Call Downgrades Before It Drops

Users report that the video got worse and the network graphs look fine. Both are true. WebRTC watches queues filling rather than packets dying, so it reduces quality before anything is actually lost — and that pre-emptive downgrade is the mechanism that stops the call from failing.

Why Your SFU Bandwidth Cost Scales With Viewers, Not Publishers

Why Your SFU Bandwidth Cost Scales With Viewers, Not Publishers

Five hundred cameras cost less to run than one fifty-person meeting. Publishers are close to free on a media server; viewers are the entire bill. Here is the arithmetic behind that asymmetry, four workload shapes priced side by side, and the two levers that actually change the number.