There's no denying that the field of Web-based real time communications (WebRTC) is one that's on a rapidly growing scale, showing up in more fields and in more platforms than some might have expected. IceLink from Frozen Mountain, meanwhile, is making its presence known in the field as well, bringing its brand of WebRTC support to several new platforms, driving value for the entire field.
With the release of IceLink 2.4.11, meanwhile, Frozen Mountain's offerings of WebRTC Anywhere only increase from here. Not only does IceLink now support Xamarin.iOS, but it also offers Opus codec support, adding high-definition audio support to several different platforms, including not only WebRTC laggards Safari and Internet Explorer, but also popular mobile platforms iOS and Android, and several others including Xamarin.Android.
That's a pretty big step in its own right, but it only carries on from here as there have also been modifications to the IceLink user interface. With the new modifications, users will find that there are many more things to do with the layout manager, so much so that there's reportedly little that can't be done from this interface. What's more, IceLink examples have also received a bit of retooling, showing off the differences among signaling, local media, and conferences.
Frozen Mountain's CTO, Anton Venema, offered up some comment on the new release, saying “By providing WebRTC capabilities for Internet Explorer and Safari in addition to Chrome, Firefox and Opera alongside support for native applications on numerous platforms, organizations can start using WebRTC today. By remaining compatible with the WebRTC standard, applications using IceLink seamlessly interact with applications using other WebRTC implementations. We believe WebRTC is an excellent solution for peer-to-peer processing and we want organizations to start using it now.”
With WebRTC rapidly growing and appearing in a variety of industries from medicine to retail and beyond, the technology is starting to show up in places that might seem outlandish. A perfect example of this involves Requestec and Akbank, who recently established a partnership in which the two firms would work together, bringing WebRTC capability to banking services and mobile wallets. While individuals are using it to connect, it's also being used as a way to quickly connect users with customer service personnel, and that in turn is leading to new developments and even a potentially improved bottom line.
A technology that can add to sales and revenue results, as opposed to just cutting costs, which still isn't to be ignored even in the best of times, is something that's worth watching. We have video on this and many other topics available at this link for those who want to learn more.
There's a great deal of value in WebRTC. It establishes connections, it allows users to stay in touch where ever those users happen to be—which in turn opens up things like the mobile workforce and the accompanying benefits of that—and it both cuts costs and drives revenue under the right conditions. Anything that advances WebRTC—as is the case with Frozen Mountain's augmentations of IceLink—the end result is commonly a positive one.
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Adam Brandt
