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Puffer (research study)

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Puffer was launched on January 18, 2019. It was initially led by Francis Yan, a Stanford computer science doctoral student, with Hudson Ayers and Sadjad Fouladi from Stanford, and Chenzhi Zhu from
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The service is limited. Only those in the U.S. can sign up, and only up to 500 users can watch Puffer at a time. In addition, the service only re-transmits free
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to improve video streaming algorithms. The study allows users across the United States to watch seven
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is a free and open-source live TV research study operated by
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Puffer

Developer(s)
Stanford University
Repository
https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer
puffer.stanford.edu
Stanford University
over-the-air television
San Francisco Bay Area media market
Tsinghua University
Keith Winstein
Philip Levis
YouTube
Netflix
Twitch
over-the-air television
San Francisco Bay Area
media market
KTVU
Fox
KPIX
CBS
KGO
ABC
KQED
PBS
KNTV
NBC
KQED+

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