Your Buffering Wheel Is Not a Feature: Why Real-Time Video Lives at the Edge

Real conversation dies the moment latency enters the room. In this episode of Voices of Video, we break down what truly separates traditional streaming from interactive streaming and why the old playbook of centralized encoding, deep buffers, and best-effort delivery simply cannot support audiences that talk back, transact, and co-create in real time. We start by defining the hard technical requirements of interactivity: ultra-low latency, low jitter, and deterministic paths from first-mile c...