Proven Higher Quality Stream Connections
Abacast Peer-Assisted Streaming technology has proven higher quality stream connections than standard unicast stream technology. In side-by-side comparisons Abacast HP2P streams had fewer breaks, skips, or buffers than standard unicast streaming technology. The result is your audience stays connected to your streams longer and gets a better streaming experiences with fewer interruptions.You can see the results in the table below. You will notice that for the same number of Unique Users (~2470) of the sample stream "Music1" the Abacast HP2P stream had fewer sessions with longer average duration and twice as many total hours.
Side-by-Side Comparison of Streaming Technologies
Abacast's Peer-Assisted Streaming Technology includes a client-side plug-in that communicates with the server in real-time on the status of the end-user's stream quality. If the plug-in finds any problems with the streaming data like missing data (skips), delayed data (buffers), or a dropped connection (breaks), it automatically redirects the streaming connection to fill-in the missing data BEFORE it plays on the user's media player. This creates a more stable streaming connection with fewer breaks, skips, or buffers compared to standard unicast streaming technology. This is only possible with Abacast's unique streaming technology and makes Abacast Enabled streams the highest quality streams available.