Douyin, along with other Chinese internet giants, operates data centers with T‑level (≈1 TB/s) outbound bandwidth, hosts over 200 000 servers, and relies on dual‑link designs, CDN acceleration, and multi‑node load balancing to deliver seamless video streams to hundreds of millions of concurrent users.
This article explains how Douyin, TikTok, Baidu, Alibaba Cloud and Tencent operate self‑built data centers with terabit‑level outbound bandwidth, details ByteDance's server count growth from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and describes the CDN technologies that enable billions of users to stream smoothly.
The article provides an overview of ByteDance's massive data center infrastructure, detailing server quantities, total outbound bandwidth reaching several terabits, the role of dual‑link designs, and how CDN acceleration enables billions of users to access Douyin and related services smoothly.
ByteDance’s data centers, including Douyin’s, operate with terabit‑level outbound bandwidth, housing up to hundreds of thousands of servers across China and abroad; the article breaks down server counts, total export bandwidth, CDN acceleration, and the network designs that enable billions of daily video streams.
The article examines ByteDance's massive data‑center infrastructure, detailing server counts, multi‑terabit outbound bandwidth, dual‑link designs, CDN acceleration, and comparisons with other Chinese tech giants, illustrating how such scale enables seamless video streaming for hundreds of millions of daily users.
