Topic

Signaling

The out-of-band exchange of session metadata that lets two endpoints agree on codecs, media types and addresses before a real-time connection opens.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Two of WebRTC's three ICE candidate types depend on servers you operate

The spec's three JavaScript APIs handle codecs, encoding and transport once two peers have found each other. Finding them takes a signaling service, STUN and TURN, and all three are yours to run and budget for.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption25
Hype gap+12
Incentives20
Confidence58