Chad Hart of webrtcHacks and Voxbone provides a market update on WebRTC to open WebRTC Boston #4. Chad give a quick background on WebRTC, talks about recent announcements, reviews browser support, discusses Microsoft, Safari, and standards status
1. 6 months of WebRTC in 10
Minutes
WebRTC Boston #4
October 4, 2016
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2. About Me
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Head of Strategic Products
https://www.voxbone.com
cwhart@voxbone.com
A blog for WebRTC developers
https://webrtcHacks.com
@webrtcHacks
WebRTC events & videos
https://www.krankygeek.com/
@webrtclive
@chadwallacehart
chad@chadwallacehart.com
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Who uses WebRTC?
WebRTC details: https://webrtchacks.com/facebook-webrtc/Image source: http://www.nerddict.com/2016/06/download-facebook-messenger-for-windows.html
300 million monthly active users
Less than 3 years since launch
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Microsoft Edge is making steady progress
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platform/status/screencapture/?q=category%3Arealtimecommunication
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No IE, but lots of Microsoft
Old Browser New Browser Comms App Native App
❌ ✔ ✔ ✔
>500M users >100M users >300M MAU >350M Win 10 users
+ 8.1 install base
No support planned ORTC + WebRTC support Skype for Web moving to
WebRTC
Adding Visual Studio tooling that
includes WebRTC
WebRTC at Microsoft
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WebRTC is crushing it!
13M 15M
185M
405M
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2B+ devices
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IMS RCS VoLTE Skype WebRTC
MillionsofUsers
VoIP Technology Users after 5 years
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Community
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New WebRTC code contributors/month on GitHub
Facebook messenger = 600MAU
+100M in 4 months
China Mobile – 800M subscribers
WebRTC at Microsoft
Skype started in 2003: https://blog.ebay.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/skype-fast-facts-q4-08.pdf
VoLTE
http://www.telecompetitor.com/report-volte-subscribers-to-total-310-million-come-year-end/
http://www.3glteinfo.com/volte-history-timeline/
RCS
2007: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
http://www.infonetics.com/pr/2012/Rich-Communication-Suite-RCS-Market-Highlights.asp
SIP
Invention 1996, standardization 1999
IMS
Favebook – 145M user in 5 years