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Topic of The Month: Do We Need Standards for WebRTC?

April 12, 2016 / in Markets & People / Add Comment

Topic of The Month: Do We Need Standards for WebRTC?

Learning from the SIP standard, implementations by vendors are in many cases diverted from the pure standard to proprietary versions of SIP thus requiring mediation between vendor environments. Which areas of WebRTC should be covered by the standards and which areas should be left for the vendors to decide on? What level of interoperability and compatibility do we want to have?

Tagged With: Standards, Topic of the Month, WebRTC

The End of Transcoding WebRTC Video Sessions

April 5, 2016 / in VoIP / 3 Comments

The End of Transcoding WebRTC Video Sessions

Google published the release notes of Chrome 50. It now supports H.264 (behind a flag). Google adds H.264 to Chrome. This was an expected addition to Chrome given the WebRTC Mandatory to Implement video codec decision at the IETF that both VP8 and H.264 should be supported by browsers. Does this put an end to the need for WebRTC video transcoding and to server side decode and encode?

Tagged With: H.264, H.265, Transcoding, Video Codec, VP8, VP9, WebRTC

Why WebRTC Screen Sharing Requires More Than User Consent

March 22, 2016 / in VoIP / 10 Comments

Why WebRTC Screen Sharing Requires More Than User Consent

The more permissive screen sharing is, the higher the security risks are. Users expect the browser to protect them from security threats of websites they visit and that each website will be isolated, similar to the sandbox concept. To achieve this, browsers implement the Same Origin Policy (SOP), which in essence means that HTML and Scripts of site A can’t have access to other sites’ content

Tagged With: Screen Capture, Screen Sharing, SOP, WebRTC

RingCentral WebRTC API Opened Up for Developers. Should You Care About It?

March 15, 2016 / in Markets & People / 3 Comments

RingCentral WebRTC API Opened Up for Developers. Should You Care About It?

RingCentral is a cloud PBX and contact center provider that also offers Glimp, a team collaboration platform. Lately they decided to open up their WebRTC APIs. RingCentral already had integration APIs in their platform. Is there anything significant in the RingCentral WebRTC API announcement and what does it mean to the existing PaaS WebRTC services (e.g. TokBox).

Tagged With: PaaS WebRTC API, RingCentral, Topic of the Month, WebRTC

WebRTC Helping Local Businesses – An Interview Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama

March 7, 2016 / in Markets & People, VoIP / 1 Comment

WebRTC Helping Local Businesses – An Interview Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama

Starting something new that is not directly inline with common business of a large company is like pushing a large rock up a hill. How WebRTC and other open source and cloud platforms come to the rescue of internal innovators is the theme of this interview with Philippe Vayssac, Chief Innovation Officer for Groupama who started a social network for local businesses in rural France.

Tagged With: granvillage, Groupama, Philippe Vayssac, WebRTC

WebRTC Q&A Highlights – Session #2

March 1, 2016 / in VoIP / 1 Comment

WebRTC Q&A Highlights – Session #2

Yesterday we had our second live WebRTC Q&A session. On the session we had Dan Burnett, Alex Gouaillard and myself.
Below are the highlights of the session. For more details see the session recording and presentation.
You can also see some of the feedback received from people who participated in the session: “Great Webinar” “Thanks Alex, Dan and Amir. Good session”

Tagged With: Alex Gouaillard, Dan Burnett, WebRTC, WebRTC Implementation, WebRTC Standards

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