What are Zoom Mesh’s benefits over a traditional eCDN?

Zoom Mesh provides the following benefits over the third party eCDN solutions integrated with Zoom Webinars and Zoom Events: Native to the Zoom client, Zoom Mesh maintains the native Zoom user experience for Webinars and events hosts and attendees. Simple cloud-based management – Zoom Mesh allows for the automatic discovery and creation of a Mesh controlled from the Zoom cloud. Unified, native join and calendaring experience. Traditional eCDN solutions require different join links (URLs) for attendees of a webinar. A user of such solutions will receive re-streamed media through a web-based interface and will not benefit from native Zoom experience or features like chat, raise hand, translation, etc. Zoom Mesh does not have this limitation. Join a webinar with the typical Zoom join flow, and Zoom Mesh will be automatically used if the client is in a location where a mesh has been enabled. Happier IT: Single platform to handle Webinar and Events rather than integrating Zoom to a third-party. Utilization/Analytics native to the Zoom admin web portal rather than a separate interface.

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Optimize your bandwidth

Zoom Mesh solution family streamlines content delivery for high-quality Zoom Meetings, Webinars and Events by dramatically improving their bandwidth utilization.

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Introducing Zoom Mesh

Zoom Mesh is a Zoom native enterprise Content Delivery Network (eCDN) solution based on dynamically created, cloud-controlled client-peering mesh and rebroadcasting technology implemented in both the Zoom clients and Zoom Cloud. This solution uses advanced algorithms to create an intelligent media broadcasting mesh assigning roles of “parents” and children to participating Zoom clients. Parent clients receive the meeting or webinar media from the cloud and re-distribute it to clients assigned child roles. Parent and child role selection is dynamically managed by a Zoom cloud element called mesh orchestrator to reduce Zoom Meetings, Webinars, and Zoom Events internet bandwidth consumption and network congestion under varying conditions.

Why Zoom Mesh?

More people in the office means more simultaneous meetings and webinars participants, which can easily overload your WAN or internet connection. With Zoom Mesh, you can minimize these bandwidth constraints and ensure great user experience even with large numbers of local meeting attendees or webinar participants

Monitor mesh performance

The Zoom Mesh advanced dashboard monitors mesh effectiveness, bandwidth savings, and attendee client performance under varying network conditions.

Deploy mesh in minutes

Zoom Mesh integrates seamlessly into the Zoom ecosystem, so you can optimize your Zoom Meetings, Webinars and Events in minutes with minimal deployment effort and no end user training. Once enabled, mesh will be automatically established and dynamically adjusted for all webinars and events for the whole environment or specific locations.

Increase your user satisfaction

Third-party eCDN solutions designed to address organization’s bandwidth constraints can also reduce the functionality of your meetings, webinars and events. Zoom Mesh not only preserves the native Zoom experience while minimizing required bandwidth investments but also increases user satisfaction by allowing Zoom to perform at higher quality levels.

A closer look at Zoom Mesh features

Up to 30-to-1 mesh “parent” to “children” ratio
Up to 1000 locations
Automatic network topology discovery
Robust resilience with dynamic parent role reassignment
Up to 100K users per location
Global and local mesh options
Granular endpoint management (force include/exclude)
Advanced dashboard (MOS score, status, utilization, performance, ratio, alerting, logging)

What could you achieve with more bandwidth?

Go in depth with Zoom Mesh and discover what our eCDN can do for your business.

What could you achieve with more bandwidth?

Go in depth with Zoom Mesh and discover what our eCDN can do for your business.

Check out our basic and advanced Zoom Mesh bandwidth calculator tool to estimate the cost savings and potential ROI of your next virtual event.

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Zoom Mesh FAQ

Zoom Mesh is a licensed enterprise content delivery network (eCDN) which allows the Zoom client to redistribute Zoom Webinars and Events media directly between clients in a peer-to-peer fashion within the same network to optimize bandwidth. Zoom Mesh is a native eCDN that uses client peering mesh and rebroadcasting technology within the same network.

As employees return to the office and continue to hold large all-hands style Webinars and Events, organizations are concerned about the amount of bandwidth consumed by potentially hundreds of clients simultaneously joining a webinar or event within an office all while preserving the end user experience.

By relaying media between clients within the network, Mesh saves significant internet/WAN bandwidth by eliminating duplicative video streams from the cloud.

Rather than having every client receive a video stream directly from the cloud, only a select number of clients will receive this stream and then redistribute it to other clients in the network, significantly reducing the amount of internet bandwidth required to attend the Webinar or Event.

Zoom Mesh supports bandwidth optimization of Zoom Webinar and Zoom Events. Zoom Mesh eCDN is native to Zoom. Its capability is built into the Zoom Clients which are controlled by the new cloud function called Mesh Orchestrator. Zoom mesh doesn’t require any additional software or hardware to operate.

Zoom Mesh provides the following benefits over the third party eCDN solutions integrated with Zoom Webinars and Zoom Events:

Native to the Zoom client, Zoom Mesh maintains the native Zoom user experience for Webinars and events hosts and attendees.
Simple cloud-based management – Zoom Mesh allows for the automatic discovery and creation of a Mesh controlled from the Zoom cloud.
Unified, native join and calendaring experience. Traditional eCDN solutions require different join links (URLs) for attendees of a webinar. A user of such solutions will receive re-streamed media through a web-based interface and will not benefit from native Zoom experience or features like chat, raise hand, translation, etc. Zoom Mesh does not have this limitation. Join a webinar with the typical Zoom join flow, and Zoom Mesh will be automatically used if the client is in a location where a mesh has been enabled.
Happier IT: Single platform to handle Webinar and Events rather than integrating Zoom to a third-party.
Utilization/Analytics native to the Zoom admin web portal rather than a separate interface.

Zoom Mesh is built into the standard Zoom Client as of version 5.12.6. It is a native to the Zoom client experience. Zoom Mesh maintains the excellent Zoom user experience with no changes.

The standard Zoom Client will be capable of being either a Parent (receiving media from the cloud) or Child (receiving media from the parent) in a Zoom Mesh environment, determined by a cloud orchestration services.

Contact your Zoom sales representative to learn more about Zoom Mesh pricing.