webrtc in geant4 (gn4-sa8t2)

connect • communicate • collaborate

Web RTC

GN4 Plans

Jan Meijer <[email protected]>


What is WebRTC?

2-way audio + video in browser without plugins

data channel

IETF + W3C

standards specify peer to peer

can be browser – browser or browser – server

specifies browser API + p2p comms

no signalling2


What does that mean?

easy to use and easy to trigger high quality vidconf capability in hands of billions

video conversations without central infrastructure

data channel: opportunity for other real time collaboration

how many million web-devs are there?

democratisation of video conferencing

bring in the UI experts!

in-context communication

decomposition

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connect • communicate • collaborate5


rendez-vous.renater.fr6


must. build. services.

THIS IS SO COOL!

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Some numbers

Adobe Connect use UNINETT SUNET

# registered users 12.000 56.000

# hosts (2013) 2.200 6.600

# rooms (2013) 3.800 16.000

# meeting hours (2013) 80.000 572.000

# host hours (2013) 28.000 124.000

JANET:

3000 VCs / month7000 registered VC systems8000 registered users45.000 MCU hours (2013)

Thirty-five of the GEANT partner NRENs provide or plan to ́offer a centrally managed video-conferencing service. The ITU-T H.323 communication protocol and the SIP protocol are now deployed almost equally often (2013)

TERENA Compendium 2013, MCU hrs

.fr, .de: 65.000+

.uk: 43.000All other GEANT NRENs: ́< 20.000 MCU hours

UNINETT SIP 2013:6.400.519 callsin: 3.116.558 out: 3.283.855

total talk time: 293.541 hrs

RENATER rendez-vous jan 2015:15.000 conf/mo


Disruptive innovation?


institution point of view

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GN4SA8T2 goals

Build our understanding, competence and skills: business, technical, use cases, eco system

Build up user community’s understanding

Propose systematic approach to next gen communication based on actual use cases: where to invest?

Create NREN position12


Objectives

WebRTC technnology scouting and feature testing

WebRTC roadmap

WebRTC demonstrator(s)

Liaison with relevant market parties, other TN4 activies and NREN/R&E community

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Relationship GN4SA8T2 and TF-WebRTC?

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webrtc in geant4 (gn4-sa8t2)

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