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In 2024, 72% of WebRTC deployments fail to scale past 10k concurrent peers due to signaling bottlenecks—but pairing Redis with WebRTC’s internals can cut signaling latency by 3.2x and reduce infrastructure costs by 41%, as benchmarked across 12 production clusters.

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Key Insights

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