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What Is WebRTC?

WebRTC stands for web real-time communications. It is a very exciting, powerful, and highly disruptive cutting-edge technology and standard. WebRTC leverages a set of plugin-free APIs that can be used in both desktop and mobile browsers and is progressively becoming supported by all major modern browser vendors. Previously, external plugins were required in order to achieve similar functionality as is offered by WebRTC.

WebRTC leverages multiple standards and protocols, most of which will be discussed in this article. These include data streams, STUN/TURN servers, signaling, JSEP, ICE, SIP, SDP, NAT, UDP/TCP, network sockets, and more.

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WebRTC Use Cases, Challenges, and Trends

What is WebRTC?

An open-source project released by Google in 2011, WebRTC provides API-based communication between web browsers and mobile applications, including transmissions of audio, video, and data. Eliminating the need for native plugins and app installations makes these connections user-friendly and supported by all the major browsers and mobile operating systems.

The adoption of WebRTC in the tech community has grown dramatically in the past few years. Facebook, Amazon, and Google are among the significant technology companies that implemented WebRTC to make their web applications faster, reliable, and more secure.