For us, those that deal with WebRTC daily, it sometimes seems as if everyone knows all about WebRTC and its promise. It is when you get to read opinions of people that deal with existing telephony systems that you understand this it is not the case.
This post is about one such case.
At the end of 2015 The SIP School released their yearly SIP Survey. 1098 responders,
WebRTC Call Quality, What Not To Do
If you are reading this blog I’m pretty sure you have already experienced some WebRTC calls.
And how was the quality of the audio? And the video? Typically the answer to this questions is somewhere between pretty good to great. Things get more complex when call needs to exist the WebRTC protected island. Time to discover why.
SD-WAN in Context of WebRTC
The promise of SD-WAN (Software Defined WAN) is reliable high quality enterprise WAN using low cost access (e.g. broadband) instead of expensive MPLS. SD-WAN is a collection of several technologies with centralized management on top.Given quality of WebRTC sessions and usage of error resilient codecs, does SD-WAN bring any value to WebRTC?
ORTC vs. WebRTC: That’s Not The Right Question
ORTC is not a wildcard anymore. It was originally pushed by Hookflash and Microsoft but today Google is part of this initiative and eventually it will find its way into the standard. 4 takeaways: WebRTC is gradually adding ORTC functionalities into it. It is not the full ORTC story but just some parts of it. ORTC is all about setting and getting media parameters…
IBM WebSphere and WebRTC – An Interview with Brian Pulito from IBM
In previous roles I held several years ago, I was involved in work with IBM related to WebSphere and their work around SIP. Things have advanced significantly since then, among other things, IBM added support for WebRTC to WebSphere. I wanted to delve more into IBM’s work on WebRTC. For this I contacted Brian Pulito who is Senior Technical Staff Member and a WebSphere Real-Time Communications Architect.
Is WebRTC in Safari Closer Than We Thought?
Support for WebRTC in Apple products is a major missing piece in making WebRTC ubiquitous. It is missing in Safari on Mac but there, users can use Chrome or Firefox. The bigger problem is on mobile. Mobile safari does not support webrtc. App store rules also force developers to use Apple’s provided WebView, which does not support WebRTC today, to render any webpage. But this is about to change.