There are a variety of ways you can use traditional telephony in your WebRTC video app, as well as different architectures you can choose to support it from commercial to open source. Let’s explore the reasons you might want to integrate a dial-in or dial-out capability into your WebRTC video or audio application and look at a sample architecture.
Even a custom development shop like ours often uses a CPaaS solution when our clients need to get to market quickly or require a large range of communication options within their WebRTC application. Vonage’s comprehensive suite of Communication APIs is a definite go-to for us. We even built it into our own SimplyDoc Telehealth Starter Kit.
The Amazon Chime SDK allows developers to quickly add messaging, audio, video, and screen sharing capabilities with the Amazon Web Services infrastructure as its backbone. Let’s explore its core functionality and try building a simple videoconferencing app.
There are many great open source WebRTC media servers out there. But Janus’ great performance, small footprint, and active open source repository and community make it a popular choice for developers looking to use the latest supported WebRTC functionalities. Alberto Gonzalez takes Janus out for a spin to build a test video conference app.