Hey folks,
<https://docs.livekit.io/transport/sel...
# self-hostingn
numerous-country-35562
12/30/2025, 4:52 AMHey folks,
https://docs.livekit.io/transport/self-hosting/distributed/#multi-region-support
For multi-region deployments, do we need a global Redis instance?
I was going through https://blog.livekit.io/scaling-webrtc-with-distributed-mesh/ and it seems that every datacentre/region has its own Redis (Message Bus), and inter-datacentre communication happens via Media Relay.
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magnificent-art-43333
12/30/2025, 3:27 PMLiveKit’s mesh system (the topic of the blog post you linked to) is specific to LiveKit Cloud, our commercial product. LiveKit’s open source media server supports multi-region deployments, but those regions do not communicate with one another out of the box.
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numerous-country-35562
12/31/2025, 4:43 AMUnderstood. Thanks.
numerous-country-35562
12/31/2025, 4:52 AMbut those regions do not communicate with one another out of the box.Within a single region or datacenter, are the media packets relayed via the "custom FlatBuffers-based protocol" mentioned in the blog, in the open-source media server?
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