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# 5 Reasons Why Zoom Was Able to Support 300 Million Video Calls a Day

**[Substack](https://daily.dev/sources/substack)** · 3 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Zoom is able to support 300 million video calls a day by using adaptive streaming, Scalable Video Coding (SVC), separating video stream processing from routing, sending separate video streams from each participant to the client, monitoring quality of service (QoS), and utilizing network awareness.

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