This talk explores how interactive streaming fundamentally differs from traditional streaming in terms of latency, architecture, compute demands, and scale.

It covers one-to-many, one-to-few, and many-to-many streaming models, the evolving roles of CDNs and edge compute, the rise of video processing units (VPUs), and the need for privately operated, open-routing backbone networks to support millions of concurrent users with real-time voice and video, providing a practical view of building modern interactive streaming