A run-it-yourself kind of week. China relays, analysis engines, Kubernetes media ingress and the audio processing stack itself all turned up as things you host rather than things you buy.
⭐ Tsahi’s Pick
China Relay EOL: Build Your Own Relay With Vonage Video API (Vonage)
Vonage’s China Relay reached end of life in Q2 2026, and the replacement is a blog post explaining how to build your own: Media server components from Vonage, running on your servers (or servers you rent directly). The deprecation is not the interesting part. “We handle China for you” was one of the few things a global CPaaS could sell that a customer could not reasonably build alone. Sunsetting it means not enough clients for it or Ericsson (Vonage’s parent company) having issues with China. The trend here is different though. Video API vendors providing media servers to host on your hardware as part of the full deployment.
📰 This Week in WebRTC
Running LiveKit on Kubernetes without hostNetwork using STUNner (WebRTC.ventures) - a nice howto post on using STUNner and LiveKit
Pexip brings secure collaboration to Bleu’s trusted cloud (Pexip) - sovereign cloud again, this time Capgemini and Orange chasing SecNumCloud
SimpliSafe’s New Video Doorbell Can Put a Live Security Agent at Your Front Door (AndroidGuys) - two-way audio with a human on the other end. And yes - it is WebRTC
How WebRTC Scales: Signaling, NAT Traversal, and the Mesh/SFU/MCU Tradeoff (freeCodeCamp) - we never had a 101 post on WebRTC for quite some time now
Streaming Encrypted Files P2P with WebRTC DataChannels and WebCrypto in TypeScript (SitePoint) - encrypted file transfer over data channels, end to end in TypeScript
On-prem WebRTC analysis: the answer used to be no (rtcStats) - the enrichment engine now runs inside your own network
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📢 Releases
aec3-rs: a full port of WebRTC audio processing to Rust (GitHub) - I don’t usually do git repos. This one is interesting: AEC3, AGC2 and noise suppression in Rust. Likely ported from libwebrtc with the help of AI agents
Introducing the LiveKit Startup Program: Your whole stack, on us (LiveKit) - LiveKit now offers a startup program, making use of their fund raising in the beginning of the year
Red5 Pro v16.1.0 - object detection results ride the data channel, plus EZDRM, ONVIF cameras and two WHIP fixes