Comments on: Top 5 Excuses for NOT Adopting WebRTC (and Why They Make no Sense)

By: Alexandre Ballesté

Alexandre Ballesté — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:57:25 +0000

Yes, it’s not in their web page, you have to dive deeper to find it.

We implemented for the portal chat that Sakai already included.
Students and teachers can now talk with any of their University connections using WebRTC.

Here are the presentation I did for the S2U Conference in Madrid ’13 where I got that question:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vMa3EHQBkAP9eOxXrAPW9NZNE4sW9Q_DOzERcnQy8mw/edit?usp=sharing

Implementing WebRTC for Sakai made me to fall in love with WebRTC and started with another guy a opensource webconference platform based on that technology. (loowid.com)

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:55:31 +0000

In reply to Alexandre Ballesté. Thanks Alexandre. So Sakai LMS uses WebRTC these days? It isn't apparent at all from the website.

By: Alexandre Ballesté

Alexandre Ballesté — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 17:26:33 +0000

Agree with the post. Specially I liked the ios one. Some argued to me this pretext when I was presenting an implementation of webrtc to Sakai LMS, and I answered wit the same response. “Good luck with flash.”

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:39:08 +0000

In reply to Art Matsak.

Art,

Saw that announcement on your blog already 🙂 keep up the work you’re doing @ Gruveo.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:38:24 +0000

In reply to Andy Abramson.

Andy, that is correct.

The interesting story about Vonage is that they started when WebRTC had abysmal support for iOS, and they still found it the easiest path to VoIP on mobile.

Vendors taking that route today have considerably easier work in front of them with WebRTC.

By: Art Matsak

Art Matsak — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:36:08 +0000

Thank you for mentioning Gruveo, Tsahi. We are actually launching our iOS app next week, and that probably wouldn't happen without us switching to WebRTC!

By: Andy Abramson

Andy Abramson — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:07:27 +0000

Great post and thank you for bringing clarity to so many who simply “don’t get it.”

Already Vonage (amongst others) has embedded WebRTC into their iOS client so I don’t see that as a hurdle, vs. development time and interest.

By: Tsahi Levent-Levi

Tsahi Levent-Levi — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:52:58 +0000

In reply to Lennie. Lennie - thanks for pointing that one out.

By: Lennie

Lennie — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 09:38:52 +0000

On point 5/standardization:

Many are probably from the telecom industry and don’t understand how Internet standards from W3C or IETF work. IETF has a motto: rough consensus and running code.

The W3C or IETF first creates drafts, the vendors start creating code for the things that won’t change in the drafts while they are being written. So a couple of vendors put it out in the field and only after it works as expected will it be standardized.

So if you think it matters that it isn’t a standard yet: it does NOT.