SIPfoundry CoLab 2013 - WebRTC - A Communications Revolution
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The document discusses the impact and advancements of WebRTC in revolutionizing communications, highlighting its status as an emerging standard in 2013 with support from major browsers. It explores the significance of open-source and royalty-free codecs, the architecture enabling secure communications, and the benefits of WebRTC for mobile app development. Additionally, it covers its integration with enterprise tools like Zimbra for enhanced communication features such as voice, video, and screen sharing.
SIPfoundry CoLab 2013 - WebRTC - A Communications Revolution
- 1. WebRTC – A Communications Revolution moderator: martin steinmann participants: george niculae, joegen baclor, daniel tacalau March 11, 2013 / Bentley University / Boston MA 1
- 2. Introducing the Presenters George Niculae Daniel Tacalau Joegen Baclor
- 3. Communications at Web Speed Nothing short of a communications revolution 3
- 4. The Vision of WebRTC Approaching reality at Web speed 4 > A softphone in a browser > Complexity reduction > Next generation ‘phone’ network > Real-time everywhere > $2 trillion industry re-invented >Skype, but better, based on standards
- 5. Status of WebRTC Standardization 2013 is the year of WebRTC 5 Chrome > Desktop: full support > Mobile: coming soon Firefox / Firefox Mobile > Desktop: full support and interop with Chrome > Mobile: Announced (Android) Safari > Apple focused on Face Time walled garden and H.264 > Third party plugin: e.g. webrtc4all > iOS is closed and prevents third party browsers from accessing certain functions Opera >Mobile: Available (Android) IE >Via ChromeFrame plugin >Microsoft chose a proprietary path
- 6. Ongoing Fight over Codecs and Patents WebRTC attempts to set a new standard for open source and royalty free codecs 6 >Voice >Opus (royalty free, open source) >Video >Google and Mozilla and W3C favor VP8 (patent free and open source) >Microsoft, Cisco, Apple favor H.264 (requires a license) >Microsoft >Remember RTAudio and RTVideo?
- 7. How Does It Work? Simple, its (almost) all in the browser 7 Features >Codecs >Encryption >NAT traversal >Bandwidth mgmt Signaling >SIP >XMPP >Proprietary WebSockets WebSockets
- 8. sipXecs – WebRTC Architecture 8 >sipXsbc as a secure gateway for external traffic >WebSocket proxy >Media anchoring >Security (encryption) >Flexible and secure remote worker solution >Mediation for vendor specific phones (Cisco) Secure infrastructure for browser based communication
- 9. 9 WebRTC Client Demo
- 10. Mobile App Development is Changing Cross-platform and speed no longer a trade-off you have to make 10 Why is this important? > Cross-platform represents huge complexity > Real-time technology is complex and expensive to buy > Could speed-up the adoption of new operating systems like Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch
- 11. 11 Trend in Mobile App Development We believe Web apps will win >Costs less >Faster time-to-market >Cross-platform WebRTC is ‘native’ in the browser >High quality audio/video without choppiness >Acquired from the best source and maintained by Google
- 12. What Are We Working On? Web based communications enablement 12 Media enabling Web integrations >Salesforce.com >Zimbra >Liferay >openACD Interoperability with phone end points >Some hurdles to overcome >Might require a proxy / gateway Providing the enterprise infrastructure >Enable the user to benefit from WebRTC client innovation >Global SIP infrastructure >Open, standards based, enables BYOD
- 13. WebRTC brings voice / video / screen sharing right into the Zimbra browser UI 13 Unite Zimbra first version >Initiate calls (click-to-call) >Presence integration >Unified messaging / call history >Conference management >Corporate address book >Calendar free / busy Unite Zimbra second version >Voice / video in the browser >Screen sharing from the Zimbra UI >Integrated chat / group chat VMware Zimbra Communications Enabled