WebRTC Weekly Issue #642
Teams picks SIP, AI in voice stacks, and 429 CVEs
Microsoft moved Teams in two directions this week - and both go away from WebRTC. The rest that caught my eye? Voice AI and security. Mostly. But not only.
⭐ Tsahi’s Pick
Microsoft Teams Android Rooms Get SIP Cross-Platform Upgrade (VoIP Review)
Two Microsoft Teams products moved away from WebRTC this week - Android Rooms drops WebRTC Direct Guest Join for SIP interop, and Teams on AVD and Windows 365 swaps out the legacy WebRTC optimization layer for a new media engine. It saddens me to see that, and if feels as if Microsoft hasn’t done enough to go all in with WebRTC at any point - or that’s the story I tell myself here. We’ll see how other vendors play it out in the next 12 months.
📰 This Week in WebRTC
What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service (Microsoft Foundry Blog) - Teams moves away from WebRTC while Agents move towards it. Go figure...
Connectivity Resilience and Security in WebRTC Deployments: Key Considerations on TURN (OpenVidu) - Where OpenVidu boasts on how they configure and manage TURN servers to remove your headaches
RTMP vs. SRT vs. WebRTC: Choosing the Right Live Streaming Ingest Protocol (Mux) - Always interesting to see how vendors who have little to do with WebRTC in their solution frame it
Open Source WebRTC Media Servers: Choosing the Right One for Your Use Case (webrtc.ventures) - A nice overview of open source WebRTC media servers available today
Chrome Patches 429 Vulnerabilities (Cybersecurity News) - Multiple use-after-free bugs in WebRTC among the 429 CVEs fixed in Chrome 149. The power of AI...
Safari Technology Preview 245 (WebKit Blog) - The crumbs we get from Apple as WebRTC fixes. This time, 2 related to video
An app that lets anyone control a robot from their phone, no coding required (Digital Trends) - Robotic teleoperation by way of WebRTC
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