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Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

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492 points storf45 | 2 comments | 16 Nov 24 03:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.423s | source
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dylan604 ◴[16 Nov 24 16:06 UTC] No.42157048[source]▶
People just do not appreciate how many gotchas can pop up doing anything live. Sure, Netflix might have a great CDN that works great for their canned content and I could see how they might have assumed that's the hardest part.

Live has changed over the years from large satellite dishes beaming to a geosat and back down to the broadcast center($$$$$), to microwave to a more local broadcast center($$$$), to running dedicated fiber long haul back to a broadcast center($$$), to having a kit with multiple cell providers pushing a signal back to a broadcast center($$), to having a direct internet connection to a server accepting a live http stream($).

I'd be curious to know what their live plan was and what their redundant plan was.

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bena ◴[16 Nov 24 16:16 UTC] No.42157117[source]▶
It is weird because this was a solved problem.

Every major network can broadcast the Super Bowl without issue.

And while Netflix claims it streamed to 280 million, that’s if every single subscriber viewed it.

Actual numbers put it in the 120 million range. Which is in line with the Super Bowl.

Maybe Netflix needs to ask CBS or ABC how to broadcast

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1. tempest_ ◴[16 Nov 24 20:10 UTC] No.42158872[source]▶
When Netflix started it was the first in the space and breaking ground which is how they became a "tech" company that happens to stream media however it has been 15 years and since than the cloud providers have basically build "netflix as a service". I suspect most of the big streamers are using that instead of building their own in house thing and going through all the growing pains netflix is.
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2. ukuina ◴[16 Nov 24 20:24 UTC] No.42158998[source]▶
You know they were commoditized when "Build Netflix" became a system-design interview question.