Hybrid Streaming

The Best of Both Worlds
Abacast takes the security, high quality, and control of unicast technology and combined it with the efficiency of peer-to-peer delivery. The result is a very secure, high quality, stable, quickly adaptable network that uses up to 98% less bandwidth resulting in stream it better than unicast and better than pure peer-to-peer.

How Does it Work?
The Hybrid P2P Network uses a central server to communicate with each user. However, the actual stream may be provided by either the server itself or, more likely, by another user or users who simply redirects the stream or portions of the stream. The Abacast server continually monitors the network, and changes the distributed streaming hierarchy as necessary to optimize user connections. This creates a closely monitored network that provides true end-to-end Quality of Service and real-time network healing creating a stream with less skipping, buffering and breaks than other streaming technologies.