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WebRTC: Real-Time Communication for the Open Web Platform

By Niklas Blum, Serge Lachapelle, Harald Alvestrand
Communications of the ACM, August 2021, Vol. 64 No. 8, Pages 50-54
10.1145/3453182
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In this time of pandemic, the world has turned to Internet-based, real-time communication (RTC) as never before. The number of RTC products has, over the past decade, exploded in large part because of cheaper high-speed network access and more powerful devices, but also because of an open, royalty-free platform called WebRTC.

In fact, over the past year, there has been a 100-fold increase of video minutes received via the WebRTC stack in the anonymous population that has opted into Google Chrome's statistics. WebRTC can be found in most Internet meeting services, social networks, live-streaming experiences, and even cloud-based gaming products.

 

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