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TECH TALK

Enabling New Possibilities for Real-time, Scalable Video

Streaming

By Chris Allen and Alexis Reyes

Event on June 24, 2020  3.3k

This tech talk will be streaming at the following times to accommodate a global audience:

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How does true connectivity feel, virtually? These days, passive viewing of livestreams just
isn’t enough. How can we create unique interactive experiences that our audience craves,
especially now?
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Chris
Enter Allen, cofounder
your email address and CEO of Red5 Pro, will discuss Sign
the trends
Up they’re seeing in real-
time video streaming, and the impact interactivity is having on the end-user experience.
He will also dive into a few different use cases and talk about Red5 Pro’s approach to
providing sub-500 ms latency to millions of concurrent viewers using their WebRTC-
based, cross-cloud distribution system built on DigitalOcean.

Key takeaways
How to deploy a highly scalable live video streaming system using Red5 Pro and
DigitalOcean

Types of applications that best benefit from adding real-time video functionality

How you can build and scale your network-intensive application on DigitalOcean while
optimising your bandwidth costs

About the Presenters

A professional software architect and an engineer for more than 15 years, Chris Allen
(@mrchrisallen) led the team that reverse engineered RTMP, Adobe Flash’s video
streaming protocol launching the open source server Red5. He founded Infrared5 in 2007
with his wife, Rebecca, and technical cofounder, Dominick, to respond to the demand for
custom software built on Red5. In the last few years, the company launched, Red5 Pro, a
proprietary version that enables real-time streaming capabilities at a huge scale.
Additionally, Chris is a leader in the open source community, coauthoring The Essential
Guide to Open Source Flash, and regularly presenting at startup, technology, and
interactive conferences around the world.

Alexis Reyes is a senior solutions engineer with more than 10 years of data center
experience. Certified in Azure, AWS, VMware, and Redhat, Alexis focuses on
understanding the customer’s business, technology, how the business and tech align,
and enabling the customer’s journey toward the cloud.

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This tech talk is free and open to everyone.

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