Adobe Stratus - P2P networking using your webbrowser

With the launch of Flash 10 there is a P2P technology Stratus built right into flash. When it was launched I was not really interested in it as it takes time to deploy the latest flash runtime. But in less than an year Flash 10 has been deployed on more than 90% of the systems worldwide (According to these stats on adobe.com).

I personally don't like flash but flash is not just about animations and videos. Its a lot more than that. And these things are what will keep flash alive even after the onslaught of "HTML5". The problem is HTML5 is made out to be this magical solution that will rid the world of Flash. Unfortunately with people like Steve Jobs promoting HTML5 as the solution to all Flash problems most people blindly start to believe it.

The reason Flash really works is that the deployment is so large and most people have it installed even if they don't know about it. iPhone got away without using flash as they had partnered with Google when they first launched the iPhone. They got an application built for it that would stream YouTube content so most people really did not miss flash on one of the biggest sites which uses flash. With the strong momentum that iPhone had flash got sidelined and the only place where we now think of flash is for Videos or Animations.

With Stratus you can do things that till now were not possible without setting up a huge server farm. List of webapps using Flash based P2P KKloud Cloud , PipeBytes, Files Over Miles and JetBytes. Even Chatroulette uses Stratus to connect users together. Since there is no server in between the cost of hosting video and voice chat is almost minimal.

There might be more applications which are using it and I will try and keep this post updated with new services which use it when they are launched.

Comments

freeall said…
Hi.

Just found out that you wrote about kkloud.com.

Actually, kkloud does not use Stratus, but uses the native browser components. By doing this you don't need to have flash installed and it can work on different browser.

It also uses a lot of the new html5 api which gives something quite cool. With html5 we can create "real" streaming directly in the browser. I can watch a film you are sharing, and scroll in it. This is not something you can do with stratus at all.

The biggest problem with file sharing in flash is that you need to load the entire file into memory, so it doesn't work for really large files.

-freeall
Unknown said…
Thanks for the information shared here. that was an interesting and informative. I had a good experience by participating in the Adobe DevSummit in 2009 and looking forward to attend Adobe Flash Platform Summit 2010 as well. AFPS 2010 is the single largest Flash Platform conference in India which features topics like Flash, Flex, Flash Platform, AIR 2.5, Andriod, RIA, LiveCycles, PHP and more. I found the information about the conference from adobesummit.com
yoganand said…
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