2. Facetime Facetime is a 2-way video chat service for iPhone 4, iPod touch, iPad 2 and OSX Mac client. Wi-Fi only support. Closed services built on Open Standards.
3. Facetime Call Call initiation requires no ‘registration’. Facetime registers phone numbers to the phones via apple proprietary methods (non-sip, fully encrypted) Call start using Apple Push Notification Server. SIP used for negotiation and call setup, HTTP and TLS for authentication. RTP and H264&AAC used for media streaming.
4. H264 -Most common video standard today AVC (advanced video coding) SVC (scalable video coding)
5. AAC - Advanced Audio Coding standard Widely used today in audio and video communications, has established interoperability. Commonly used by Apple’s devices.