An interactive cost model: enter catalog hours, audience, watch-time, and bitrate, and the tiered CDN egress, storage, encode, DRM, total monthly run, cost-per-viewer, and gross margin update automatically. CloudFront US tiers (AWS, 2026-06-08) built in.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This OTT platform cost model updates CDN egress, storage, encoding, DRM, cost per viewer and gross margin as you change catalog hours, audience and bitrate. We wrote seven volumes on the OTT stack; start with Volume 3 on CDNs and the economics of delivery, then Volume 1 on encoding and bitrate and Volume 2 on packaging. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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