Last week, real-time communications business OnSIP announced the release of its OnSIP Network, a platform ready to handle the WebRTC demands of businesses. It now offers the platform as a service (PaaS) solution for companies who wish to manage their own communications networks but still need a signaling platform to complete the process. With OnSIP's API, SIP.js, companies' developers can reach the OnSIP network from their own applications and use the platform as a transport for both open and secure communications.
For the time being, the company announcement reveals, businesses can access the OnSIP network completely free of charge. It markets the free network as capable of handling voice, video, user registrations, and messaging. At a later date this year, the free network will reportedly be placed into a freemium model where some network features will be available to all but other features will move to a paid tier.
OnSIP appears to believe wholeheartedly in the capability and future of WebRTC. Andy Ogg, the company's director of Channel, spoke about how the communications protocol works.
“The OnSIP Network locates and negotiates communications between WebRTC application peers, solving a similar problem that the Public Switched Telephone Network once did for telephones,” Ogg said.
“With WebRTC on the rise, the Channel will benefit from this solution’s lowering the barrier to entry to WebRTC application development,” he continued
The network is open to all SIP endpoints and network transfer protocols. This includes UDP, TCP, TLS, WebSocket, and WebSocket Secure.
WebRTC is changing the landscape of telecommunications by placing everything in the hands of capable businesses. Many major web browsers now support the protocol which allows businesses to communicate via voice or video without the need for dedicated telecom hosts. PaaS providers such as OnSIP, help businesses organize WebRTC-enabled applications with endpoint management, user organization, and data channel controls among many other features. Although businesses can take those elements into their own hands as well, communications providers can make the process even easier.
Edited by
Maurice Nagle
