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MICROSOFT ACQUIRES PEER5 TO BEEF UP TEAMS LIVESTREAMING

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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Peer5, which is developing a
platform to optimize bandwidth usage via mesh networking technology. Terms of
the deal weren’t disclosed, but Microsoft said it would use Peer5’s services to
enhance live video streaming in Microsoft Teams.

Companies are increasingly relying on streaming to interact with their workforce
and manage the new world of hybrid work. From companywide trainings to all-hands
meetings and town halls, broadcasts are becoming critical for engaging with
employees. Indeed, as livestreaming becomes more common in the workplace, large
organizations are turning to enterprise video streaming solutions that scale.
Global Market Insights predicts the videoconferencing market will grow 19%
between 2020 and 2026, reaching $50 billion in value by 2026, and Zoom alone now
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Palo Alto, California-based Peer5 focuses on the tech underpinning these types
of streaming solutions. The company, which was founded in 2012, operates what it
claims is the world’s largest peer-to-peer content delivery network.

“As Microsoft Teams has become the primary communications and collaboration
platform for many of our customers, they’ve asked us for more integrated …
solutions for large-scale meetings and virtual events,” Teams GM Nicole
Herskowitz wrote in a blog post. “Peer5 … expand[s] our ability for delivering
secure, high-quality, large-scale live video streaming with optimized network
performance in Teams.”


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Peer5 delivers what’s called an enterprise content delivery network (eCDN). In a
nutshell, eCDNs can alleviate congestion in corporate networks to deliver
improved video streaming and broadcasting for large audiences of employees.

Peer5 specifically offers a WebRTC-based eCDN framework that runs in-browser to
optimize bandwidth usage, with self-balancing mesh networks that automatically
scale as the number of viewers increase. The technology doesn’t require
installation on endpoint machines and can be deployed without changes to
physical network infrastructure.

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Prior to the acquisition, Peer5, which raised $3.5 million in venture capital
from FG Angels and other investors, claimed to have powered live events with as
many as 2 million concurrent users. The startup’s product has been used by more
than 1 billion users to date.



“When many employees stream at the same time, the network gets congested. Our
technology solves this problem in the most efficient way possible, without
changing the existing network infrastructure,” Peer5’s Hadar Weiss said in a
statement. “Peer5 is integrated together with the video player so it is enabled
instantaneously for every employee within an enterprise. We push the envelope
even further by adding logic and mechanisms that adjust to any device and any
network without requiring any custom setup from the customer side.”

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Herskowitz says Peer5’s solution will allow Microsoft to provide a first-party
eCDN offering in the future. (Current Peer5 customers will be able to continue
using Peer5 services.) However, Microsoft also plans to continue supporting eCDN
solutions from its certified partners.

The expansion of Teams via Peer5 comes as Microsoft’s videoconferencing service
reaches 145 million daily active users. The company recently introduced features
like Fluid components, which allow chat users to send a message with a table,
action items, or lists that can be coauthored and edited by everyone in line.
Teams’ new shared stage integration offers developers access to the main stages
in meetings through a configuration in their app manifest. And meeting event
APIs, launched in preview this spring, enable the automation of meeting-related
workflows through events like meeting start and end.

Teams will also be natively integrated with the upcoming version of Microsoft
Windows — Windows 11.

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