BitTorrent to start testing live P2P

BitTorrent has put the call out to qualified broadcasters and content creators to sign up to help build BitTorrent Live, which it believes is the next generation of live streaming.

BitTorrent has been working on P2P live streaming for several years now. Company founder Bram Cohen, who also invented the BitTorrent protocol, developed a completely new P2P protocol for this use case. BitTorrent began inviting users for field tests last fall, and has since streamed some DJ sessions and other limited live events.

"Built with users, from scratch, it's designed to take the principles of the BitTorrent protocol, and apply them to streaming," according to BitTorrent's call to broadcasters, "That means: no barriers to broadcast. That means: the more people who tune in, the more resilient your stream. That means: you can share video with a massive audience, in realtime – without bandwidth costs or infrastructure requirements.

"We've been conducting regular tests with users (props to our intrepid volunteers), and have achieved results at swarm sizes of a few thousand. Now, we're inviting qualified broadcasters like you to help us build something amazing."

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