Does WebRTC need a change in governance?
Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
Read MoreThe future of streaming includes WebRTC.
Disclaimer: I am an advisor for Peer5.
If you look at reports from Ericsson or Cisco what you'll notice is the growth of video as a large portion of what we do over the Internet. As video takes up an order of magnitude more data to pass than almost anything else we share today this is no wonder. Here are a few numbers from Cisco's forecast from Feb 2016:
Source: Cisco
I think there are a few reasons for this growth:
The challenge really begins when you look at the Internet technologies available to stream these massive amounts of content:
The challenge with HLS and MPEG-DASH is latency. While this might be suitable for many use cases, there are those who require low latency live streaming:
For those who can use HLS and MPEG-DASH, there's this nagging issue of needing to use CDNs and pay for expensive bandwidth costs (when you stream that amount of video, everything becomes expensive).
Which brings me to the recent deal between Peer5 and Dailymotion. To bring you up to speed:
There are other startups with similar technologies to Peer5, but this is the first time any of them has publicized a customer win, and with such a high profile to top it off.
In a way, this validates the technology as well as the need for new mechanisms to assist in our current state of video streaming - especially in large scales.
WebRTC seem to fit nicely in here, and in more than one way only. I am seeing more cases where companies use WebRTC either as a complementary technology or even as the main broadcast technology they use for their service.
It is also the reason I've added this important topic to my upcoming course - Advanced WebRTC Architecture. There is a lesson dedicated to low latency live broadcasting, where I explain the various technologies and how WebRTC can be brought into the mix in several different combinations.
If you would like to learn more about WebRTC and see how to best fit it into your scenario - this course is definitely for you. It starts October 24, so enroll now.
Is it time to change the governance of WebRTC in order to keep it growing and flourishing?
Read MoreRTC@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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