Abstract: Alibaba Cloud Live Global Acceleration establishes a cross-domain high-speed channel for users in the video collection area and the playback source site area, realizing the shortest and optimal link transmission between the collection area and the playback area, helping enterprises to solve the problem of global user access freezes or delays too high a problem.
Today, with the rapid development of the global Internet, more and more netizens hope to obtain transnational information through live webcasting, especially important news events and grand events. Such content attracts the attention of users from all over the world. It has the characteristics of high real-time performance and centralized playback time point. However, it also faces various problems due to limited network bandwidth and distribution acceleration.
In order to solve the problem of slow cross-border transmission and poor user experience caused by delay, the global acceleration function of Alibaba Cloud live broadcast came into being. It establishes a cross-domain high-speed channel for users in the video collection region and the playback source site region, and realizes the shortest and optimal link transmission between the video collection region and the playback region, helping enterprises to solve the problem of global user access freezes or excessive delay.
Alibaba Cloud Global Accelerator Live Streaming Architecture Diagram
As can be seen from the architecture diagram below, Alibaba Cloud Global Accelerator first collects content from terminals, distributes the content to overseas live streaming centers through CDN network acceleration, and then transfers the content to domestic live streaming centers through global high-speed dedicated lines. , and finally distributed to each player for playback through the CDN network.
Performance comparison between global acceleration and public network acceleration
In addition to the efficient guarantee of transmission speed, Alibaba Cloud Global Accelerator has higher communication quality and availability, more cost-effective cost, and higher security than public network transmission. Let's take a look at the comparison:
Function points use the public network to use Alibaba Cloud Global Acceleration| Communication Quality and Availability | The quality of long-distance public network communication is affected by various factors, and it is difficult to guarantee the stability of delay and packet loss rate. | Alibaba Cloud's high-quality infrastructure guarantees better link quality and availability. |
| cost | Pay the public network transmission fee as needed. | Without any hardware cost input, the billing method is flexible and the price is close to the people. |
| safety | Cross-border public network transmission network conditions cannot be guaranteed. | Based on Alibaba Cloud virtual network technology, it is isolated from the public network line and has high security. |
Usage scenarios and how to activate
Alibaba Cloud's global acceleration products are very suitable for the business scenarios where the anchors live overseas, domestically or globally, and need acceleration. The first batch of cities where the dedicated line has been opened include Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe, North America and other regions in the Asia-Pacific region. Now it has been opened for trial on the official website. Users do not need any development and server purchase. Just follow the steps below to apply, and you can achieve a daily basis. Granular billing.
1. Activate the Alibaba Cloud live streaming service;
2. Add the live streaming domain name to the console; 3. Determine the live streaming that
needs to use the global acceleration function; name), StreamName (stream name), channel area (refer to the official website documentation for the channel area); 5. Submit a work order application and wait for the staff to open it for you.