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The book · Volume 3 of 7
Video Streaming: A Complete Guide to Video Delivery: From ABR and CDNs to Players, WebRTC, DRM, and the Economics of Streaming
This cheat sheet explains 95th-percentile billing, commit tiers and how traffic peaks turn into your CDN bill. Volume 3 covers delivery economics in depth: CDN pricing models, caching and offload, bitrate ladders that drive egress and multi-CDN cost trade-offs. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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