Mobile WebRTC Gateway

What is WebRTC

WebRTC is a new open framework for the web that enables Real Time Communications in the browser. Moreover it enables the voice calling, video chat, and P2P file sharing without plugins for browser-to-browser applications. WebRTC offers web application developers the ability to write realtime multimedia applications like video chat on the web, without requiring plugins, downloads or installs. It's purpose is to help build a strong RTC platform that works across multiple web browsers and multiple platforms. The major component of the WebRTC are: getUserMedia, PeerConnection, DataChannels. The first allows a web browser to access the camera and microphone. The second sets up audio/video calls. The last one allows browsers to share data via peer-to-peer.

What is mobile browser

A mobile browser is a web browser designed for use on a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA. Mobile browsers are optimized so as to display Web content most effectively for small screens on portable devices. Mobile browser software must be small and efficient to accommodate the low memory capacity and low-bandwidth of wireless handheld devices. The mobile browser usually connects via cellular network, or increasingly via Wireless LAN, using standard HTTP over TCP/IP. Some mobile browsers can display regular HTML sites, while others can only display websites that have been specially formatted for mobile browsers. Content optimized for mobile browsers is typically text-based or low-graphic and may be written in languages that were designed for mobile computing such as WML (wireless markup language) or CHTML (compact HTML). Most current mobile browsers today can display regular HTML.

What is a Gateway

A gateway interconnects networks with different network protocol technologies by preforming the required protocol conversion. It allows communication between the webphone using the RTMP and the SIP phone. A gateway is a network point that acts as an entrance to another network. In enterprises, the gateway is the computer that routes the traffic from a workstation to the outside network that is serving the Web pages. In homes, the gateway is the Internet Service Providers that connects the user to the internet. In enterprises, the gateway node often acts as a proxy server and a firewall. The gateway is also associated with both a router, which use headers and forwarding tables to determine where packets are sent, and a switch, which provides the actual path for the packet in and out of the gateway.