Levy said it was initially difficult to get good video over ADSL. "The biggest challenge we faced is that a typical ADSL connection has a relatively slow upload speed which makes it difficult to haul decent real time video into the cloud," he said. "We have managed to achieve impressive video quality in full screen using only 256 Kbps of upload bandwidth."

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