Hi Shachar from Peer5 here, we're operating a MultiCDN.
Cloudflare is actually one of the best performing CDNs.
All CDNs encounter issues small to big - that's why using multiple providers and intelligently routing between them is critical for high resilience.
I think solving hard problems requires working hard. There are processes that happen while you sleep and dream that I don't know the explanation for, which really help you progress on an extremely difficult problem. In my experience those processes happen only when you're very focused on your problem, it occupies your thought 80% of your waking hours and it's the last thing on your mind before going to sleep.
I remember I saw a video on it from a more credible source than I, but I can't find it.
There's the great nand2tetris course [1] - teaches step by step how to build a computer from the simplest logical gates, using hdl, to building your own ALU, computer, and later on operating system, etc'.
What really underlines this blog and thread is that as of the moment of writing this comment, there's no official answer from Google, or even a non official one from an employee. The feeling I get as a customer is that they just don't care.
What do you mean exactly by that?
You want to replace the contribution side (camera to server) by WebRTC or delivery side (server to screen)
or both?
Contribution: there are platforms who already uses WebRTC instead of rtmp to stream the live camera feed. You can use tokbox's apis for example.
Delivery: This is where it gets more tricky, the nice thing about http based streaming like HLS and DASH is that it's cacheable just like any other file served over http - making it extremely scalable and that's how most CDNs operate today.
Changing that part into WebRTC has it's benefits like low latency but has a huge degradation in scaling complexity because of the connection state oriented nature of WebRTC, there are companies trying to build that as well e.g: Red5
That's the $1B question.
The obvious application is the video conferencing style hangouts, Skype (which are using WebRTC already).
The nice thing about having video conf capabilities in the browser is that you can embed it in any web page and start do interesting things with it - like interactive lectures.
Improved gaming networking is another vertical.
We've built Peer5 (W17) on top of WebRTC to create a P2P CDN for Video streaming