Spearline has acquired Callstats.   We have some exciting news to share! After acquiring testRTC a year ago. WebRTC monitoring is now in the best hands. If you’re not aware, Callstats offers a passive monitoring solution for WebRTC applications. You embed their SDK (software development kit) within your application, it then siphons the metrics it needs to its servers for further analysis – similar in many ways to our watchRTC product. Before continuing, I’d like to welcome all the Callstats customers to the Spearline family. We are here to help you and grow together with you. For me perso ..read more

watchRTC is our most recent addition to the testRTC product portfolio. It is a passive monitoring service that collects events information and metrics from WebRTC clients and analyzes, aggregates and visualizes it for you. It is a powerful WebRTC monitoring and troubleshooting platform, meant to help you improve and optimize your service delivery. Learn more about watchRTC It’s interesting how you can start building something with an idea of how your users will utilize it, to then find out that what you’ve worked on has many other uses as well. This is exactly where I am finding myself with w ..read more

Conducting a WebRTC test is challenging, but the devil is in the details. testRTC’s cloud WebRTC testing and validation platform that scales with ease. Testing WebRTC applications is challenging. From simple 1:1, through figuring out how to optimize for large group video calls to live broadcasts to thousands of participants or more; what you will immediately notice is the need for simple and powerful automation. Unlike other web technologies, WebRTC brings with it three unique characteristics: WebRTC is a resource hog. This translates into complexities in allocating resources when conducting ..read more

Network Jitter or Round Trip Time – which is more important when testing or monitoring a WebRTC application? You’ve got your WebRTC application. You have users communicating with it. How do you know they are having a good experience? How do you know you’ve placed your servers in the right locations? Got the routes properly configured? Do you need to add a new server in Frankfurt? Or maybe it would be better to beef up your Australian presence? These answers require looking at the users you have and the quality they are getting. And when the time comes to look at WebRTC quality, you’ll hear a l ..read more

If you are developing WebRTC applications that target large scale events – think hundreds of users in a single “room”, then you should continue reading. LiveSwitch Cloud by Frozen Mountain is a modern CPaaS offering focused around video communications. Naturally it makes use of WebRTC and relies on the long heritage and capabilities of Frozen Mountain in this space. Frozen Mountain has transitioned from a vendor that specializes in SDKs and media servers you can host on your own to providing also their managed cloud service. In essence, dogfooding their technology. One of the strong markets th ..read more