primoconnectinc

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David: Chris and I tweeted and messaged our contacts around that time. I suppose they were not prior users of reddit before we invited them to join in the AMA.

Building Primo and now scaling it. We've done a lot of telecom over the years, but have never built the underlying network. Ultra for instance is an MVNO that rides on one of the big 4 carrier networks. Primo however required us to build the entire network out, and its a mixed network that bridges apps and the traditional phone network.

We've been using WebRTC for a lot of the P2P stuff, but then have some very unique challenges in getting that to interop with a SIP gateway and getting in and out of the regular phone network at scale. In a lot of ways, Primo is a bleeding edge network without a lot of tried and true patterns to fall back on.

We launched very soft and took the first month or so just tuning in a production environment, but then took the gloves off and have started seeing massive growth in some very very tough user conditions. A lot of our use cases involve people in closed markets (like the Gulf) using VPN networks to tunnel out and then connecting to someone on GSM mobile phone in another country. Its not a very vanilla use case and we've been facing some very unique challenges.

The good news is that its a great proving ground for us and once we get this thing really humming, we'll have a world class service. Its going to be great. -Chris

Now, please drink responsibly tonight and don't puke on deadfred's lawn.

David: CRISPR --Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats. This will change the world, and not necessarily for the better in all cases.