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> If you have the technology for big meetings then you don't need to engineer anything else for 1-1 meetings.

Unfortunately not. A framework for large video meetings is necessarily routed through a central server which can add tremendous latency, even between two people near each other.

The architecture for 1-1 meetings tends to be peer-to-peer and focus on minimizing latency.

There are a lot of architecture tradeoffs between the different models. Choosing an optimal architecture for each product turns out to be quite necessary.



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