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WebRTC Integrator's Guide
WebRTC Integrator's Guide

WebRTC Integrator's Guide: Successfully build your very own scalable WebRTC infrastructure quickly and efficiently

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WebRTC Integrator's Guide

Chapter 2. Making a Standalone WebRTC Communication Client

The objective of this chapter is to make a simple WebRTC client and server module that bypasses a centralized server and, instead, makes a direct peer-to-peer connection between browsers through a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) proxy server. The aim is to connect a WebRTC client to another WebRTC client using SIP over WebSocket as the signaling protocol. In this chapter, we will study the following three prime ways of making SIP WebRTC calls:

  • WebRTC to WebRTC call through a public cloud-hosted, WebRTC-capable SIP server, such as SIP2SIP
  • WebRTC to WebRTC call through a locally hosted, WebRTC-capable SIP server, such as OfficeSIP
  • WebRTC call to SIP phone through a WebSocket gateway and SIP server, such as Kamailio

We will begin the chapter by describing a simple WebRTC client-server model.

Description of the WebRTC client-server model

The components of a typical WebRTC SIP-based client include the following:

  • SIP stack, in the form of a JavaScript library, to perform signaling
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to style a page
  • WebRTC media API to render a peer-to-peer connection between the audio-video components of a page
  • An HTML5-based graphical interface to provide inputs such as registration parameters, self-URI (short for Uniform Resource Identifier), URI of the party to be called, and so on

The following diagram depicts the important components to set up a WebRTC infrastructure:

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Description of the WebRTC client-server model

The client side must be linked to a server that runs on the network side to complete the signal flow. The components that must be deployed on the network side are as follows:

  • The WebRTC gateway to connect to the native SIP world
  • The SIP server to embed the SIP application/proxy logic

The web browser is the key component in WebRTC transactions. It is the client-side environment that pulls out the HTML content...

SIP servers

The WebRTC client with an SIP stack can be registered and can send an invitation or give answers through an SIP server. The SIP server might or might not have the support for WebSocket. This categorization can be understood in two parts:

  • This part consists of a WebRTC-compliant SIP server, and the caller and receiver are both on SIP over WebSocket (SIP WS to SIP WS). The WebRTC-compliant SIP server can belong to one of the following two categories:
    • Using open public domains (such as SIP2SIP, JSSIP Tryit Server, or sipML5.org). This is demonstrated in the following diagram:
      SIP servers
    • Using locally hosted WebRTC-compatible SIP server (OfficeSIP). This is demonstrated in the following diagram:
    SIP servers
  • This part consists of a simple SIP server that does not respond to SIP over WebSocket, but only to SIP (Sip WS to Sip). This server can belong to one of the following two categories:
    • Using the WebRTC2sip gateway as an inter-conversion node between SIPWS and SIP. This enables the WebRTC client to connect...

Limitations of the existing setup

We saw how to develop a WebRTC client, install an SIP server, and configure a WebRTC to SIP environment. A sky view of our final, existing client-server solution setup for SIPWS signaling and WebRTC media so far is shown as follows:

Limitations of the existing setup

As per our current setup status, only the WebRTC-enabled client and servers can participate in the communication flow in an offer/answer (O/A) model.

There are, however, numerous limitations of the existing solution, some of which are mentioned in the following sections. In the upcoming chapters, we shall do away with most of the limitations.

Firewall and NAT issues

The existing architecture does not provide the Network Address Translation (NAT) technique to overcome the blockage due to firewalls and enterprise policies. As a solution, we must see the alternative for public IP discovery in the WebRTC client server setup. NAT is possible in the Kamailio server through RTP proxy modules and STUN.

Media transcoding

If the codecs on...

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to make a dynamic web application for the WebRTC client using primitive building blocks such as CSS, JavaScript, SIP library, and HTML form elements. We also saw the setup of various kinds of SIP servers and their applicability in establishing an end-to-end call. In this process, we studied the implementation of WebSocket-supported SIP servers. We also studied the integration of the SIP WebRTC client with non-WebSocket supported SIP servers, through WebSocket gateways.

In essence, we learned about how client development and essential servers help to support the WebRTC SIP infrastructure. This includes the Tomcat web server, which caters to the loading of a web page and the HTTP handshake; the Kamailio SIP server, which acts as a registrar; and the SIP proxy node. The WebRTC client programs used open source libraries such as jsSIP and sipML5. The interaction and challenges inherent in communication between non-WebRTC sip endpoints, such as SIP phones...

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Description

This book is for programmers who want to learn about real-time communication and utilize the full potential of WebRTC. It is assumed that you have working knowledge of setting up a basic telecom infrastructure as well as basic programming and scripting knowledge.

What you will learn

  • Understand the purpose of Media APIs in the WebRTC media stack
  • Discover more about WebRTC and next generation communication networks
  • Learn how to run simple WebRTC clients with the default peertopeer behavior
  • Run WebRTC calls over a WebSocket protocol using a WebSocket signaling server
  • Integrate WebRTC with old networks
  • Learn best practices to build up a dynamic web project with support for WebRTC calls
  • Explore the usefulness of the interconversion of protocols and the transcoding of codecs with WebRTC

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
1. Running WebRTC with and without SIP Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Making a Standalone WebRTC Communication Client Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. WebRTC with SIP and IMS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. WebRTC Integration with Intelligent Network Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. WebRTC Integration with PSTN Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Basic Features of WebRTC over SIP Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. WebRTC with Industry Standard Frameworks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. WebRTC and Rich Communication Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Native SIP Application and Interaction with WebRTC Clients Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Other WebRTC Use Cases Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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I chose this book after going thoroughly through its ToC and comparing it with many other books on WebRTC. This book is quite comprehensive and covers a lot more topics in quite less pages. The good point is that it starts from basics and goes until PSTN, etc. (although I did not read that stuff). I think it makes a good read. You must know programming very well, though.
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this book is good and filled with easy to do setups ans excercizes to get stated with webrtc for setting my inoffice communication. saved the cost of setting physical phones and vpn etc
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This book is suitable for those who are looking to integrate WebRTC into a SIP infrastructure, be it native SIP, IMS, RTC, VoLTE or any other of the VoIP curses that use SIP as their signaling protocol.Altanai does a great job at covering many of the aspects associated with this fusion of WebRTC and SIP, taking the time to go over a rich set of use cases.
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I bought this book after a good research on the list of books available on this topic. It really helps me a lot in developing my VOIP tool. Has in depth information.
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