Imagine Zoom receives a 720p (video resolution) video from your computer, but it can’t send the same resolution video to other participants. It’s worth mentioning the video transcoding process. Good, so in total Zoom server receives 141 Petabytes of data, transforms (transcodes) video to a smaller resolution, and sends further to the viewers, also 141 Petabytes per day. And at the same time, you receive video from other participants and it looks like Zoom tuned their system in a way that you receive around the same 675 MB/hour. Meaning Zoom servers receive 675 MB/hour x 225 million of hours = 141 PetaBytes per day. When you chat over Zoom in a group call, on average you upload 675 MB/hour (Megabytes per hour) of data. Ok, we multiply 45 minutes by 300 million daily participants and get 225 million human hours spent per day. What would be the average meeting duration? Statistics says it’s between 31 and 60 minutes. Let’s try to find out what are the infrastructure costs for Zoom to run all those meetings online.īy April 2020, Zoom stated they have 300 million daily meeting participants. Which video conferencing tool is the most popular in the USA market? Yes, this is Zoom. We are all living in Coronavirus time and remote communication tools become the everyday necessity.

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