Watching the entire world discover zoom is interesting. About 7 years ago, when it came out, I started using it as my primary video-conferencing application. It’s was and is an excellent piece of software. It displaced WebX in my life immediately when it was released. Over time it took over Skype and others before that. The founder of Zoom, Eric Yuan, worked for Cisco / WebX before he left and founded Zoom.

One of the reasons Zoom has been so superior from the start is its peer to peer networking. Once you are connected, their protocol established a networking mesh between all the call participants.

Peer to peer is and will almost always be the way to go over centralized protocols.

Zoom has been a forward-thinking and brilliant cloud architecture since it’s inception. It makes elegant use of client, server, network, and features. Most people do not know this or care. For them, it “just works.”

The dynamic scaling and encoding at the edge is particularly awesome as it allows each person on the call, and there can be many, to experience their own best possible connection and quality of service without dragging the entire network of callers down.

I have studied these subjects my entire life almost; since I was 12. There has never been a better time to learn and understand how the software helping us communicate and work and the internet connecting us does its job.

To learn more:

Cloud-Based and Peer-to-Peer Meetings

https://blog.zoom.us/…/…/cloud-based-and-peer-peer-meetings/

History of the Internet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

The 150 Year History of Videoconferencing

https://www.lifesize.com/…/vi…/history-of-video-conferencing