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 MoreIt’s clear that location is going to be a competitive advantage, one where Microsoft currently holds first place but will lose it to Softlayer soon. Given the amount of money being invested, it will be interesting to see where cloud availability expands to next.Go read that post. It is a good one. You'll notice some interesting (and worrying) information there. The reasons David gives for the need for more data center locations are 3: redundancy, data protection and user latency. In the case of WebRTC, user latency is critical - not necessarily for the signaling, but if server side media processing is required, or just TURN servers to route the media, then the location of the TURN server is really important. The interesting thing is that from the table David gives on the locations of data centers from the various cloud players, there are regions that don't have enough data centers or have nothing at all. And none of the big players have good answers for a lot of locations (I know - people ask me). Amazon with AWS, isn't even leading the pack - they seem to be lagging behind.
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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