Jingle Nodes in Practice - Sea Beyond

Jingle Nodes will have a experimenting session and a presentation on Sea Beyond, which is a new technical event that explores the future of real-time communication technology. It is organized by ProcessOne, an authority in XMPP and real-time communication software.


During the development sandbox portion of the event, we will have coding sessions of:

• Adding Jingle Nodes Services to an ejabberd server
• Placing Jingle Calls using the created service

For the presentation session, I will be showing what is XMPP Jingle and how it is dropping the Voice Over IP complexity, making XMPP Multi-Media Sessions a reality.


The first Sea Beyond event will take place on December 17, 2009 in Paris, France, from 9:30. The formal program will conclude at 19:00, but will be followed by an opportunity to share a drink and talk with other guests and speakers.

Adobe goes P2P - XMPP and FMS

After Google requirement of having a P2P method to provide Voice and Video on GMail, Adobe finally put some effort and released a very decent support for P2P on Flash Player 10.
It is called Stratus and you can also you it as we do in UDP-ICE, we can have several alternative and fall-back methods, including RTMP as a last resort.

Adobe was probably holding this at all costs as they were afraid on the reduction of amount of FMS license sales. But it turns out that at some point they needed to open it, so they could get bigger market share, as not everybody can afford 100% of Audio/Video proxied on their networks.
This also means that every company now can have their own Voip Services and also full featured Video Conference Platforms running internally using only an ejabberd and FMS on server side and browser based application on client side.

I tested myself the UDP based traffic, and the quality as expect actually much better with compared with the Slow and Lagged RTMP TCP based solution, specially in long distance and high latency networks.



Check it out at:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

Looks like now we have more consistent reasons to have kind of Flash RTMFP Transport in Jingle.
You can also see a very cool tutorial on this link (Flash P2P Tutorial).

Erlang RTP Proxy

If you question yourself why move to an Erlang RTP Proxy if you are using openSER, Asterisk, or any other SIP based service. I can also say that the benefits don't seen so clear too.

But it turns out to be coolest solution for Jingle Raw-UDP Proxies! As you can integrate with your EJabberd as a module.

Check http://code.google.com/p/erlrtpproxy/ for the RTP Proxy application.

I've developed several RTP Proxy based on XMPP for the last few years, including Openfire RTP Bridge, which is pure Java and embed in all Openfire deploys.

Stay tuned! I will publish the RTP Proxy Module for EJabberd soon!

But I can give you a hint that this one looks specially promising: