Lumen^® Mesh Delivery for Streaming support: Overview

Mesh Delivery uses hybrid peer-assist technology to dynamically retrieve video content from the most efficient source—either the CDN or a mesh network of user devices—offering online broadcasters and over-the-top (OTT) providers cost-effective flexibility, performance, and scalability when bandwidth demand peaks. Our advanced algorithms use ISP awareness, device telemetry, quality metrics, content type and format to intelligently adapt content delivery to each viewer.

Upcoming release
 

• Improve offload by using more peers' contextual information
  
  
• Web Add support of NexPlayer
  
  
• Web Improve offload for reduced-latency contents
  
  
• Web Improve interaction with ABR
  
  
• Web Improve support of Tizen
  
  
• iOS Add support of AVQueuePlayer
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Add SDK errors and vitals to client API
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Add support of cookie-based contents' authentication
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improve support of DASH contents

Q1 2023

• Improved backend services resiliency
  
  
• Web Added support of RXPlayer v4
  
  
• Web Changed default backend host to target cdn.dna-delivery.com. Streamroot.io domain will be decommissioned
  
  
• Web Evaluated P2P resources usage footprint compared to CDN delivery, to assess product sustainability
  
  
• Web Fixed playback failure for non-streaming response causing a Transmuxer reset loop
  
  
• Web Fixed race condition on WebWorkers which was preventing P2P
  
  
• Android Improved Buffer Target handling; higher offload and lower buffer target oscillations
  
  
• iOS  Disabled the local P2P candidates to avoid Local Network Privacy end-user prompt
  
  
• iOS  Improved detection of Playback State
  
  
• iOS  Improved integration guidance by Plugin
  
  
• UWP Improved support
  
  
• VLC player Improved support
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of THEOplayer
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added CDN downloaded metric to Integration Sample application
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of port number in content URL
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of HTTP Response Header modification
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added support of Gzipped HTTP Body
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Changed SDK version reporting
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Changed internal module architecture
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Fixed header mismatch for HTTP Keep-Alive
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Fixed rewriting of SegmentTemplate nodes of DASH
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved network switching logic and reconnections
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved support of Live DVR
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved offload by reducing chunk multi-download overhead
   

• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SDK module tear down logic
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SDK telemetry and statistics
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved DRM support for HLS
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved HTTP connections lifecycle
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved support of empty HTTP Content-Type
   

• Web Improved cross-platform peering
  
  
• Web Android iOS Other platforms Several minor bug fixes and improvements

Q4 2022

• Improved resiliency of core backend services to highly popular contents
  
  
• Web Added support to hls.js 1.3.x
  
  
• Web Added support to dash.js 4.5.x
  
  
• Web Improved the reactivity of the P2P core module thanks to better support of Fetch API
  
  
• Web Improved client-side telemetry on resource usage monitoring and peers' connections
  
  
• Web Improved client-backend communication policies
  
  
• Web Improved troubleshooting tooling and metrics for live latency use-cases
  
  
• iOS Added support to Xcode 14 and dropped support of iOS below 11.
  
  
• iOS Added encryption compliance flag as per Apple guidelines
  
  
• Android Fixed LoadControl (Buffer targets) handling
  
  
• Android Fixed contents' certificate verification error on root entity expired as per Let's Encrypt guidelines
  
  
• Android Improved interaction with CDN's HTTP Range Requests
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved SSL certificate validation
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Improved peers' reconnection delay when network changes
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Reduced track switch thanks to a better estimation of P2P bitrate
  
  
• Android iOS Other platforms Added SDK version and CDN metrics to the demo application
  
  
• Other platforms Added experimental support to Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Reference Design Kit (RDK).
  
  
•  Web Android iOS Other platforms Improved cross-platform peering
  
  
• Web Android iOS Other platforms Several minor bug fixes and improvements

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