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Being Specific About Your WebRTC Signaling Choices

March 3, 2015 / in VoIP / 1 Comment

In WebRTC things are different. WebRTC doesn’t define any signaling protocol or transport for signaling; this is left for the application. This gives more flexibility but also more things to decide on and therefore debate about.
Case study A – I’m building my new awesome service
Case study B – I’m connecting my telephony network with WebRTC

WebRTC Usage Numbers are Hard to Quantify

February 23, 2015 / in Markets & People / 1 Comment

A similar but more complex question arises for WebRTC. WebRTC is a lower level technology than WordPress. WordPress is more of a complete solution than WebRTC. WebRTC has a more permissive license (BSD for both the Google and Ericsson implementations) and there are good reasons to reuse sub-components of it for different purposes.

AT&T Takes Your Identity to the Web

February 16, 2015 / in VoIP / Add Comment

WebRTC API platforms are not new around here. From a high level perspective, most of these API platforms seem to be more of the same. Having said that, some have an unfair advantage. AT&T could have taken the me too approach but they didn’t. They took a different and interesting stab at WebRTC and made use of their unfair advantage, their users and their AT&T identity.

An Interview with Veselin Pizurica from waylay.io

February 9, 2015 / in IoT / Add Comment

In a previous post I wrote about IoT solutions coming to us from mobile device and OS vendors. The world of IoT and specifically platforms that allow developers to build services that interact with connected things has more variety. I had an interesting chat with Veselin Pizurica who is the founder of waylay.io. An early stage startup that offers a PaaS for IoT services

WebRTC Standards Update #1

February 3, 2015 / in WebRTC Standards / 1 Comment

In this issue we cover W3C related work including: Constrainable properties – What are they and where are they used?; getUserMedia sources; Low-level media control and information; Control over DTLS-SRTP keys; WebRTC statistics; DTMF support

What’s Next for WebRTC Standards?

February 2, 2015 / in WebRTC Standards / 1 Comment

Dan Burnett & Amir Zmora team-up to provide you with an answer to this. If you are involved with WebRTC these are questions you probably ask yourself once in a while. How do I follow-up on what’s being worked on in WebRTC standard bodies? How do I know about these changes ahead of time, prepare for them and take advantage of them? Here comes the solution.