Priologic unveiled and demonstrated tawk.com at the WebRTC Conference & Expo this week in Atlanta. The solution, targeted at 13- to 30-year olds, allows users to create free, secure, anonymous video chat rooms with fast startup and better privacy.
“We’re completely excited about this,” says Priologic CEO Doug Pelton, adding that tawk.com (a consumer product) is built on top of EasyRTC Enterprise.
Priologic’s first WebRTC solution was easyRTC, which offers front-end and back-end pieces that let developers use their laptops to build WebRTC apps. (This solution won in the tools category at the last WebRTC event in November in San Francisco.) The company then introduced easyRTC Enterprise, which adds monitoring, logging and signaling service to the above. It built this second offer as a platform to support its own products and the products of others. tawk.com is its third product. The company is seeking large distribution partners for its products.
Pelton says he believes that privacy and security will among the strengths of WebRTC. Priologic uses single sign-on security, which enables users to connect without logging in every time. That helps remove a barrier to communication, Pelton says. And tawk.com doesn’t require users to enter any personal information to get chat rooms up and running.
Priologic put a TURN server in the back end to support tawk.com. TURN servers are bandwidth intensive, says Pelton, who added that the company doesn’t know what amount of its users will be behind firewalls and as a result require TURN. However,
when you’re using WebRTC, if you don’t have a TURN server it doesn’t work well because if someone is behind a firewall they can’t make a peer-to-peer call.
Pelton is proud that what he describes as a tiny company based in Victoria, B.C., has been able to introduce a WebRTC stack, is using its own back-end signaling server, and is not using SIP but instead has built its own solution based on WebSockets. And Priologic is not the only Canadian company making its market on the WebRTC frontier, he adds: Canadians are well represented in this industry. That’s good news, he says, because “we know WebRTC will be big, it’s naturally viral.”
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Alisen Downey
