WebRTC
Proper noun
Meaning
WebRTC
(telecommunications) An open source technology that enables real-time communication (RTC) such as data, voice or video, directly from a Web browser.
Examples
All of SYS-CON Media's products and services target interrelated i-technologies including Cloud Computing, Internet of Things, Microservices, DevOps, Big Data, Mobile, and WebRTC.
Big vendors need to heed the proliferation of WebRTC, says Tsahi Levent-Levi, a WebRTC consultant and Enterprise Connect 2015 conference speaker.
A WebRTC server usually refers to a few different types of back-end servers, like signaling and media servers, that help connect browser-based communications.
Bear in mind that WebRTC is designed so that the offer or answer can be tweaked before being set as the local or remote description, by editing the values in the SDP text.
As an example, a WebRTC gateway, recognizing that the call is from a customer, could fork the SIP session to a call-recording application to meet compliance requirements.
For metadata signaling, WebRTC apps use an intermediary server, but for actual media and data streaming once a session is established, RTCPeerConnection attempts to connect clients directly: peer to peer.