RTC@Scale 2024 – an event summary
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
Read MoreHere's an interesting thought: while vendors are pitching connecting WebRTC to IMS, carriers are deploying non-IMS WebRTC services.
One of my hobbies is going to WebRTC events for telecoms (=most of the events these days) and getting into fights with people who pitch that WebRTC's success requires the benefits of IMS. Guess which side I am on?
It dawned on me the other day, that I am not alone.
Telecom vendors in conferences will try to sell their IMS gear which happens to have (either really have or slideware have) IMS access points into it. As expected, they sell it as the best thing that have ever happened to WebRTC.
It seems like most of their target customers (the service providers) are ignoring them...
Just look at the commercial services we already have of WebRTC out there by telcos:
Putting WebRTC into their X1 platform to provide something similar to the Chromecast experience.
Orange Libon is a VoIP OTT service launched by Orange last year. It added WebRTC support, as its third party libraries page suggested at some point (dead link since then).
This isn't an IMS play but rather the opposite direction.
NTT have built and launched their SkyWay platform for developers.
Anyone said TokBox? Well... Telefonica later sold it to Vonage.
Telenor has their own "pet" service appear.in.
This is the pure WebRTC multipoint conference experience.
Telenor decided to... sell it to Videonor. appear.in later rebranded as Whereby.
Dean pointed to Tuenti's WebRTC based service. Another Telco VoIP OTT service that makes use of WebRTC.
Real service launches with WebRTC don't include IMS yet. This can mean several things:
For the telecom vendors this should be a big red alert sign: They need to rethink their strategy with WebRTC. Stop treating it like another access point to IMS. Look at what your customers are doing and find a way to be attractive to them again.
RTC@Scale is Facebook’s virtual WebRTC event, covering current and future topics. Here’s the summary for RTC@Scale 2024 so you can pick and choose the relevant ones for you.
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