Slides presented at the WebRTC MeetUp in Israel on Wednesday 19th June.

1. WebRTC IL Meet-up
Wednesday June 19th 2013
WebRTC IL Meet-up
Alan Quayle
alan@alanquayle.com
www.alanquayle.com/blog
6/5/2013 © 2013 Alan Quayle Business and Service Development 1

2. What The Geeks Say
Open, Nothing Proprietary
No Plugs-Ins
Multi Platform / Device

3. Real-time stuff for your
browser that just works

6. Machine to Machine and Telematics

7. Surveillance
& Monitoring

8. Lots &
Lots &
Lots of
Devices

9. Nearly 1B by the End of this Year!
Copyright Disruptive Analysis Ltd
2013
Feb 2013
Million
Source: Disruptive Analysis WebRTC Strategy Report, Feb 2013
Definitions & methodology in report - See disruptivewireless.blogspot.com for details
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
Tablets
Smartphones
PCs

10. Embedding Communications
Everywhere!

13. Codec and IPR Wars

14. Browser GetUserMedia PeerConnection DataChannel
Chrome Yes Yes Q2 ‘13
Chrome for mobile Yes (March ‘13) Yes (March ‘13) Q2 ‘13
Firefox (desktop) Yes Yes Yes (first one)
Firefox (mobile) Yes Yes Yes (first one)
Opera Yes H2 ‘13 2014
Opera Mini H2 ‘13 2014 2014
IE (desktop) Chrome Frame /
2014
Chrome Frame /
2014
Chrome Frame /
2014
IE (mobile) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015
Safari (desktop) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015
Safari (mobile) 2014/2015 2014/2015 2014/2015
WebRTC is NOT Everywhere and
will not be anytime soon 

15. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

16. Regardless IE Matters

17. Mobile is Even More Complex
Native browser Natively in OS 2nd browser 3rd party SDK

18. There’s No Approval Process

19. In The Limit Which Browser Gives you the Best
Experience on a Particular Device will Win

20. Impact of WebRTC?
• Voice is just another event in your social or office tools
• Viber / Whatsapp / WeChat / Fring can offer chargeable
services without the 30% app store tax
• PSTN becomes the communications path of last resort
• Company's website now becomes its call center
• Weblog becomes your personal communications
assistant

21. Impact of WebRTC?
• 3-way calling finally becomes simple and obvious
• Directory services are necessary to connect: telephone
numbers, SIP IDs, web session IDs, other OTT IDs, etc.
• Web developers can now create cool telecom services
• Advertising finally enters the call
• Communications becomes embedded in most
transactions

22. Key Points
• Voice communications will increasingly be through the
web
• Browsers and web connected devices are the new
endpoints
• Security, identity and privacy remain very important
• New business opportunities abound