WebRTC testing through KITE is getting more and more popular. As we updated the cosmo website, KITE is also receiving a lot of new features in this 2.0 release. Still the only end-to-end testing and load testing on the market that can be run on-premises, and to support web apps (desktop browsers and mobile browsers) as well as native apps, KITE has been leading the market from the clients application support, and price, points of view, but was still slightly being in term of usability. It was an expert tool made for experts. This new release add many free features, as well as many new commercial options for automated load testing on top of your own AWS account, for minimum cost.

In a public comment to millicast recent post about simulcast, Chris Allen, CEO of infrared mentioned that they have been supporting ABR with WebRTC in their Red5 Pro Product for a long time. While his claim is valid, and many in the streaming industry use a variation of what they do, there are two very important distinctions that needs to be made between ABR and simulcast. We made the distinction about latency quickly in our presentation at streaming media west last year, however possibly too quickly, and we never really explain the distinction about end-to-end encryption, so we though we should dedicate a full post this time around. WebRTC with simulcast is the only way to achieve the lowest latency possible, and real end-to-end security, with a higher flexibility than DRM can provide.

Finally finding the time to go back to the root of this blog: webrtc standard. In this post we will revisit what simulcast is and why you want it (product view), before we go into the implementation status score cards for both Browser vendors and Open Source SFUs out-there that could be established after a fast and furious hackathon in Pragues two weeks ago. WebRTC Hackathon before the IETF meeting are becoming a tradition, and as more and more come together to participate, the value for any developer to participate is getting higher. We hope to see more participants next times (free food, no registration fee, all technical questions answered by the world experts, what else could we ask for?)