If you run WebRTC at scale, a large share of your media goes through TURN relays. Restrictive NATs, enterprise firewalls, and clients that hide their IP addresses all push sessions onto relayed candidates, and when TURN server performance drops under load, call quality drops with it. This
On September 22–23, I was in Chicago for the IIT Real-Time Communications Conference at Illinois Tech, an annual IEEE conference where industry engineers and academic researchers present work on real-time communications. This year’s tracks covered programmable networks, WebRTC applications, emergency communications, and AI in real-time communications. I
When WebRTC quality degrades on your SFU (jitter spikes, frozen frames, choppy audio), your monitoring tells you something is wrong. It doesn’t tell you what is responsible. Is the network dropping packets? Or is your server too loaded to read them from the socket on time? The
