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    WebRTC Book

    WebRTC

    APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web

    WebRTC, Web Real-Time Communications, is revolutionizing the way web users communicate, both in the consumer and enterprise worlds. WebRTC adds standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and built-in real-time audio and video capabilities and codecs to browsers without a plug-in. With just a few lines of JavaScript, web developers can add high quality peer-to-peer voice, video, and data channel communications to their collaboration, conferencing, telephony, or even gaming site or application. Written by experts involved in the standardization effort, this book introduces and explains the W3C APIs and the IETF protocols of WebRTC. Packed with figures, example code, and summary tables, this book makes complicated concepts and technologies such as peer-to-peer media and NAT and firewall traversal easy to understand.

    Available now as an eBook on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords (a variety of DRM-free eBook formats including EPUB, PDF, and MOBI), Apple iBooks, and Diesel.

    Available now as a paperback at Amazon and Barnes & Noble!

    Read an interview with Alan B. Johnston by Tsahi Levent-Levi at BlogGeek.

    A Review of the book by Alan Quayle.


    WebRTC Book

    WebRTC

    APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web

    WebRTC, Web Real-Time Communications, is revolutionizing the way web users communicate, both in the consumer and enterprise worlds. WebRTC adds standard APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and built-in real-time audio and video capabilities and codecs to browsers without a plug-in. With just a few lines of JavaScript, web developers can add high quality peer-to-peer voice, video, and data channel communications to their collaboration, conferencing, telephony, or even gaming site or application. Written by experts involved in the standardization effort, this book introduces and explains the W3C APIs and the IETF protocols of WebRTC. Packed with figures, example code, and summary tables, this book makes complicated concepts and technologies such as peer-to-peer media and NAT and firewall traversal easy to understand.

    Available now as an eBook on Amazon Kindle, Smashwords (a variety of DRM-free eBook formats including EPUB, PDF, and MOBI), Apple iBooks, and Diesel.

    Available now as a paperback at Amazon and Barnes & Noble!


    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Preface
    1. Introduction to Web Real-Time Communications
    2. How to Use WebRTC
    3. WebRTC Peer-to-Peer Media
    4. W3C WebRTC Documents
    5. WebRTC Protocols
    6. IETF WebRTC Documents
    7. IETF Related RFC Documents
    8. WebRTC Implementations
    A. The W3C Standards Process
    B. The IETF Standards Process
    C. Glossary
    D. Supplementary Reading and Sources
    About the Authors

    More Detailed Contents

    Sample Figures Set 1

    Sample Figures Set 2

    Alan B. Johnston

    Dr. Alan B. Johnston has over thirteen years of experience in SIP, VoIP (Voice over IP), and Internet Communications, having been a co-author of the SIP specification and a dozen other IETF RFCs, including the ZRTP media security protocol co-authored with Phil Zimmermann ZRTP. He is the author of four best selling technical books on Internet Communications, SIP, and security, and a techno thriller novel “Counting from Zero” that teaches the basics of Internet and computer security. He is on the board of directors of the SIP Forum. He holds Bachelors and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering. Alan is an active participant in the IETF RTCWEB working group. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer at Avaya, Inc. and an Adjunct Instructor at Washington University in St Louis. He owns and rides a number of motorcycles, and enjoys mentoring a robotics team.

    Daniel C. Burnett

    Dr. Daniel C. Burnett has more than a dozen years of experience in computer standards work, having been author and editor of the W3C standards underlying the majority of today's automated Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems. He has twice received the prestigious "Speech Luminary" award from Speech Tech Magazine for his contributions to standards in the Automated Speech Recognition (Voice Recognition) field. As an editor of the PeerConnection and getUserMedia W3C WEBRTC specifications and a participant in the IETF, Dan has been involved from the beginning in this exciting new field. He is currently the Director of Standards at Voxeo. When he can get away, Dan loves camping both with his family and with his son's Boy Scout Troop.

    Other Books by Alan B. Johnston

  • Johnston, Alan B., Counting from Zero. 2011.
  • Johnston, Alan B., Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol. 3rd Edition Norwood: Artech House, 2009.
  • Sinnreich, Henry, and Alan B. Johnston, Internet Communications using SIP. 2nd Edition, New York: Wiley, 2006.
  • Johnston, Alan B., and Dave Piscitello, Understanding Voice over IP Security. Norwood: Artech House, 2006.
  • Sinnreich, Henry, Alan B. Johnston, and Robert J. Sparks, SIP Beyond VoIP. Melville: VON Publishing, 2005.