What is the difference between Agora Live Interactive Streaming and common CDN + RTMP technologies?

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Most CDN + RTMP technologies for live streaming allow users to watch the live steaming in a web browser, which lowers the audience's threshold.
Agora provides a solution for SD-RTN™, host, and audience to have the same real-time communication quality as an individual line with:

Private voice and video coding
Private transport protocol
Private node deployment
Private transmission algorithms

See the following table for details:

Feature	CDN + RTMP	Agora Live Interactive Streaming
Video Encoding and Decoding	H.264	Private
Audio Encoding and Decoding	AAC	Private
Transport Protocol	TCP based on RTMP	Private protocol based on UDP
Transmission Algorithm	TCP	Private algorithm for fixing packet loss and adjusting the bitrate automatically according to the current bandwidth
Picture-in-picture layout	Fixed	Can be adjusted dynamically

Agora also enables the function of publishing streams into the CDN for social media sharing.

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