PeerToPeer Live Streaming A costsaving alternative

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Peer-To-Peer Live StreamingA cost-saving
alternative

• Sameh El-Ansary, PhD
• Assistant Professor, Nile University
• IEEE Engineering Day 2008

Why?
How?
Partners
Impact
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P2P From Hackerware to a major cost-cuting
technology
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Low-Cost Live Streaming, why?

• Status Quo the most costly link in the value
  chain is content distribution

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Live P2P streaming, How?

• No need for costly multicast infrastructure
• P2P turns viewers into multicast nodes.
• The challenge
• How can you provide QoS with unreliable node?
• P2P research has been dealing with that for some
  time
• Major players started to investigate this
  approach no clear winner yet

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Partnership Past Future

• April 2007
• Pre-study contract from Swedish content manager
  (MPS) to SICS KTH
• Science consulting contract extends to include
  Nile University
• September 2007 - present
• Start of product development by a SICS spin-off
• Nile University signs an MoU with KTH
• June 08
• Nu receives a research fund from the Swedish
  funding agency Vinnova
• October 2008
• Expected delivery date to first customer
• Future
• Collaboration with local international ISPs
  (Under Negotiation)
• Introduce hardware deployments (Under
  Negotiation)
• Enrich the Rights Management model