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QuickBlox 10 Gb traffic/storage in free tier


I am developing a iOS video chat app using QuickBlox api but I didn't getting meaning of 10 Gb traffic/storage. I read about it from here http://quickblox.com/plans/free/

I have three questions:

Q.1) How much storage/traffic will be used, If we started a video call to a person using iPhone for 1 hour ?

Q.2) 10GB traffic/storage per month for each application or per account ?

Q.3) Can we make video confrencening app using Quickblox api ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


Solution

  • A.1) When you are doing a p2p video call to a person, the only traffic that will be used server-side is for logging start and end time on the server (and the like). The video traffic won't affect the 10Gig.

    A.2) You should be creating one account for your app - so: both.

    A.3) Video Conference with more than 2 participants is not supported natively in QuickBlox, but you can bind your video signal to more than one instance, allowing you to stream your video to multiple participants at the same time. Of course, with higher user count, the necessary bandwidth of every user increases. If you have p2p between six users, you have to push five incoming and five outgoing video signals through each participant's internet connection. (You should think of a clever way to downsize the signal on the sender side.)