Where’s that open MCU platform everyone is looking for?

[If you are new around here, then you should know I’ve been writing about WebRTC lately. You can skim through the WebRTC post series or just read what WebRTC is all about.

In the past month, a lot of people have approached me, all in the search of an MCU – a multipoint conferencing unit that does video calls for WebRTC.

You see, doing point-to-point video calls is now easy with WebRTC, but for those who need more participants in the call, there’s no easy answer. This is why I started my short series of multipoint posts, but that’s more of a glimpse than a solution.

The truth is that MCUs are hard and tricky to develop. There are companies out there that received a lot of seed money just to solve this problem. Now, I don’t need such an MCU, but there are those who do, and this is what this post is for.

If you are in search of such a solution – be it an open source platform you can install in your own servers, a cloud service for rent. If you are a developer searching for something interesting to do.

Then speak up: leave a comment here or contact me.

Maybe several companies together, who simply need a multipoint solution, can decide to join forces on this one: develop the platform for us all and reduce this barrier of entry to the market.

Not sure what role I will be taking besides this shoutout, but I am sure the journey will be interesting to those participating!

Tags: cloud, multipoint, resources, shoutout, WebRTC