Two years after acquiring German P2P start-up StriveCast, Google has launched enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) support for Google Meet, using a WebRTC-based peer-to-peer network. The video communication service can now transmit live events to 100,000 viewers in real-time with sub-second latency. However, such improvements do not happen in a vacuum. Looking at the competition, Google is in fact late to the party. Google boasts of supplying Meet streams in ultra-low latency since September 2023, but on the eCDN front, it has been behind. Microsoft Teams, which had been one of StriveCast’s largest customers prior to the Google acquisition, bought the start-up’s rival Peer5 in 2021, and launched its own eCDN a year later, making use of Peer5’s decentralized mesh…