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.

Choosing to go open source over a CPaaS for your WebRTC media stack is a strategic decision about control, flexibility, and long-term ownership. For teams building real-time products, an open source WebRTC media server can offer the freedom to customize media handling, integrate deeply with your architecture,
