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Discussion on: How to build your own Social Audio Chat Application - Part 2

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Raunak Ramakrishnan

Great article! Cost wise, a single SFU node can handle hundreds of audio streams if the application is audio-only. Most of the computational and bandwidth bottlenecks come when handling video due to multiple bit rates, simulcast. This article by Signal goes into a lot of details on how SFUs handle video

Some OSS SFU software which can be used as building blocks:

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Ashwin Hariharan

Thank you for reading, and for the links to SFUs! I will add the article by Signal to the list of resources 😇