Janus is a great, lightweight piece of software that allows you to scale video conferencing quickly. While Janus documentation isn’t very easy to decipher to a newer user of the platform, it’s still a powerful tool that can be leveraged to overcharge your WebRTC infrastructure. Our WebRTC Engineer Jacob Greenway sheds light on some of the more difficult aspects of Janus security and shares best practices for hardening a Janus gateway to security attacks.
8×8’s new Jitsi as a Service (JaaS) provides a complete video conferencing tool right out of the box that can be easily integrated into Wordpress. Perfect for smaller businesses with simple use cases and budgets that cannot support a fully custom WebRTC application.
What exactly is WebRTC and how are the peer-to peer, real-time communication video, audio, and data channels it enables used in different industries such as video conferencing, contact centers, telehealth, insurance, in-context communications, dating and social media, gaming, IoT, and more? Let’s find out.
For years, developers building real-time video and audio applications on the web have worked under a quiet constraint: whatever protocol you chose, it had to work in Safari. Well, that’s not 100% true because many WebRTC apps used to have disclaimers like “works best in Chrome”. When
