Dyyno Offers P2P Live Streaming Video Platform—Be Your Own Event Producer

Palo Alto-based Dyyno offers a variety of high definition video streaming capabilities with a hybrid architecture that makes its peer-to-peer platform uniquely enterprise-ready. Launched December 2009, Dyyno’s video solutions cover both B2B and B2C with the industry’s first 1080p HD online platform. Relying on user-generated content, customers can create their own channels, whether for broadcasting a table tennis competition, a conference or enabling a global audience to view a World of Warcraft tournament. Vamshi Sriperumbudur, head of marketing for Dyyno, sees plenty of other applications beyond sports and role-playing games however. In the case of virtual events, Dynno’s multi-streaming ability presents a host of presentation opportunities. “We just put it in the capability for the viewer to look at multi streams,” he says.  “The presentation…the PowerPoint slides the Twitter stream that was displayed…and the speaker.  The user can now watch all of these simultaneously.”

Dyyno currently offers several solutions, two of which are targeted primarily to the individual and B2C market. The first is a free offering.  Users can create a free channel by signing up at Dyyno.com. Of the thousands of users partaking of the free service, a subset also subscribes to Dyyno Premium ($19/month). The Premium service provides storage capability of up to 40 hours of video (10-20 hours of HD video).  For the small to medium business market, there is the Dyyno Business Channel ($100/month). This service provides up to 100 gigabytes of video storage with unlimited streaming and viewers. It also allows businesses to manage the entire lifecycle of the video themselves—in Sriperumbudur’s words, “to set it up, capture it, live
stream it, send it to people through social media, email and all the other communication methods.” They can then record the video while it is streaming and upload it to the video server.  For large business needs, the Dyyno Broadcast Station offers all the aforementioned functionality plus multiple channels, increased storage capability as well as revenue sharing. 

For event managers, the Dyyno platform affords a good deal of flexibility. Managing up to 10 multiple streams during the course of a single event allows managers to focus content however they choose by bringing up certain streams at certain times while minimizing others. Streams can also be labeled—remote speakers vs. in-house speakers, for instance. Because the
platform is fully functional, no additional encoding devices are required. The entire process can be done directly from a PC. And since the video runs as a single stream, it saves a great deal of bandwidth. Bandwidth requirements are twofold: for broadcasters, 600kbps for the downlink and 400-500kbps for the uplink. Broadcasting in HD requires more—1-3mbps is ideal. For viewers, 400-600 kbps capacity is needed.

The platform supports three modes of video: live, video on demand and what Sriperumbudur calls scheduled replay which is a continuously running stream that can be accessed at any time. The platform also offers video editing tools although Sriperumbudur admits that using the pause and start functions during a live feed can be just as effective. While Dyyno does not have a training department per se, they can provide that service locally. For remote users, they offer a comprehensive user guide which Sriperumbudur believes is perfectly adequate because of the platform’s ease of use.