WebRTC Weekly Issue #285 - July 24, 2019

Here is the latest on WebRTC  from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Reading

When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse (EdSurge)
An interesting and important read. Left me speachless.

How callstats.io Monitors WebRTC Sessions Without Compromising Data Privacy (callstats.io)
That Zoom incident is getting everyone into an explanation frenzy – a good thing. Here’s also Doxy.me.

Exploring Low-Latency Technology Options in the Wowza Ecosystem (Wowza)
The only thing missing in the explanation here about the WebRTC alternative is that the limitations presented there are limitations in Wowza’s implementation of WebRTC and not of WebRTC itself.

Technical

Packet Loss Runtime Comparisons for iOS Video SDKs with Apple’s Network Link Conditioner: Agora v. Twilio, TokBox, & Facetime (Agora.io)
Agora shows off its packet loss resiliency capabilities.

Use Cases and Customer Wins

Southeast Asian cloud communications platform Wavecell acquired by 8×8 in deal worth $125 million (TechCrunch)
This one is interesting. Especially as I think there were other CPaaS vendors up for grabs.

New ‘Snowflake’ Proxy Helps Censored Users Access Tor Network (Fossbytes)
Interesting how WebRTC tech can be used for privacy leaks as well as beefing up privacy.

Releases

Nothing this week.

From our own posts

None this week.