WebRTC IL Meet-up

Wednesday June 19th 2013

WebRTC IL Meet-up

Alan Quayle

alan@alanquayle.com

www.alanquayle.com/blog

6/5/2013 © 2013 Alan Quayle Business and Service Development 1

What The Geeks Say

Open, Nothing Proprietary

No Plugs-Ins

Multi Platform / Device

Real-time stuff for your browser that just works

Machine to Machine and Telematics

Surveillance & Monitoring

Lots & Lots & Lots of Devices

Nearly 1B by the End of this Year!

Copyright Disruptive Analysis Ltd 2013

Feb 2013

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Source: Disruptive Analysis WebRTC Strategy Report, Feb 2013 Definitions & methodology in report - See disruptivewireless.blogspot.com for details

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Tablets

Smartphones

PCs

Embedding Communications

Everywhere!

Codec and IPR Wars

Browser GetUserMedia PeerConnection DataChannel

Chrome Yes Yes Q2 ‘13

Chrome for mobile Yes (March ‘13) Yes (March ‘13) Q2 ‘13

Firefox (desktop) Yes Yes Yes (first one)

Firefox (mobile) Yes Yes Yes (first one)

Opera Yes H2 ‘13 2014

Opera Mini H2 ‘13 2014 2014

IE (desktop) Chrome Frame / 2014

Chrome Frame / 2014

Chrome Frame / 2014

IE (mobile) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015

Safari (desktop) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015

Safari (mobile) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015

WebRTC is NOT Everywhere and will not be anytime soon

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

Regardless IE Matters

Mobile is Even More Complex

Native browser Natively in OS 2nd browser 3rd party SDK

There’s No Approval Process

In The Limit Which Browser Gives you the Best Experience on a Particular Device will Win

Impact of WebRTC?

• Voice is just another event in your social or office tools

• Viber / Whatsapp / WeChat / Fring can offer chargeable

services without the 30% app store tax

• PSTN becomes the communications path of last resort

• Company's website now becomes its call center

• Weblog becomes your personal communications

assistant

Impact of WebRTC?

• 3-way calling finally becomes simple and obvious

• Directory services are necessary to connect: telephone

numbers, SIP IDs, web session IDs, other OTT IDs, etc.

• Web developers can now create cool telecom services

• Advertising finally enters the call

• Communications becomes embedded in most

transactions

Key Points

• Voice communications will increasingly be through the

web

• Browsers and web connected devices are the new

endpoints

• Security, identity and privacy remain very important

• New business opportunities abound