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Bit6 Challenges Tech Community
systems – such as feature phones and even
landlines,” said Goloshubin.
With Bit6, it is easy for app developers
to Think Beyond WebRTC
to dramatically enhance the user
experience by quickly adding features
that enable user-to-user communications.
Bit6 combines the entire communications
ecosystem – including WebRTC,
mobile and public switched telephone Bit6, a communications as-a-service 2019.
and coupling it with other aspects of
network (PSTN) – through its cloud-based platform provider that helps to transform Calling WebRTC merely a “building
communications, such as text and
communications-as-a-service platform. Bit6 the app experience by allowing developers block,” Bit6 CEO Alexey Goloshubin says multimedia messaging, application
helps developers create new ways to deliver to easily add communication features to WebRTC’s point-to-point capabilities are developers can create new communications
seamless voice, video and text/multimedia any mobile or Web application, today disconnected from the wants and needs of capabilities and deliver a uniied experience
messaging integrated across Web and issued a challenge to the technology users. Bit6 is advocating coupling WebRTC that satisies how people actually
mobile applications.
The Bit6 beta program recently introduced community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond with other aspects of communications, such as text and multimedia messaging. communicate,” said Goloshubin.
People expect to be able to stay connected
a software development kit (SDK) for WebRTC’s signiicant limitations and fully Application developers should ask the via voice, video and messaging, wherever
Android, offering WebRTC-based voice and leverage its underlying value to accelerate following questions to maximize usability and whenever, across multiple platforms
video calling and multi-media messaging. innovation, application developers need
when implementing communication and devices, including smartphones and
The Android SDK joins the SDK for iOS
to consider the entire communications features:
tablets. Messaging must be a priority, said
and a JavaScript SDK for Web platforms ecosystem.
n Can users connect via smartphones and Goloshubin, citing a report from Experian
announced earlier this year. With Bit6,
WebRTC, among the hottest technology tablets?
that found U.S. smartphone owners ages 18
it is easy for app developers to quickly
trends, solves an important and complicated n Are we satisfying the strong preference to 24 send 2,022 texts per month on average
add features that enable user-to-user set of problems, making it possible to for messaging over voice and/or video?
– 67 texts on a daily basis – and receive
communications across smartphones, feature collect, convert and send streamable
n Are users who only have access to
another 1,831.
phones, tablets, and web browsers.
audio and video data between browsers. legacy systems, such as feature phones and “Our experience with communication
According to the Disruptive Analysis’ 2014 landlines included?
apps has proven that even with access to the
n Follow Bit6: Twitter: @bit6com Edition WebRTC Report, WebRTC will be n Is the user experience uniied and most advanced communications software,
Facebook: fb.com/bit6com
available on more than 6 billion devices seamless?
a full communications ecosystem must still
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/bit6
with more than 2 billion potential users by
“By bringing WebRTC to mobile
account for users who remain on legacy

marketNEWS company’s commitment to WebRTC. any company to add one-click video sales and Method for Geographic SIP Scaling,”
Vidyo and Google irst announced their collaboration to enhance the video quality and support to their websites. With the simple addition of an InstaCall button script U.S. Patent Number 8,650,243, issued on February 11, 2014.
in WebRTC VP9 back in 2013. By offering to a webpage, businesses can harness
its expertise in scalable video coding to the power of seamless and substantive
Vidyo Announces
the WebRTC open source initiative, Vidyo video communication and new marketing dialzoo, a new WebRTC-
VidyoWorks WebRTC
will allow WebRTC-based browsers and intelligence— no downloads, plugins, or
endpoints using scalable VP9 to beneit dialing required. Built on the latest browser based service to call
Developer Platform and API
from the VidyoRouter architecture and technologies, including WebRTC, InstaCall anyone by their email
VidyoWorks platform. Scalable VP9 will is interoperable with OnSIP’s full suite of
Vidyo, Inc., announced WebRTC support deliver improvements in video quality, hosted PBX features and the PSTN.
address
in both the VidyoWorks platform and resilience and scale that are essential for “With their breakthrough WebRTC
VidyoConferencing product portfolio.
the types of deployments anticipated for solution and unique approach to pricing dialzoo is a webapp that allows you to call
The announcement includes a new WebRTC.
their Hosted VoIP services, OnSIP adds anyone directly from your browser using
VidyoWorks Java Script (JS) API that
“Vidyo’s WebRTC strategy provides a scope and choice to the Telecom Brokers the recipient’s email address instead of their
allows developers to connect WebRTC clear path to a richer video experience portfolio,” said Vice President of Telecom phone number.
clients to Vidyo’s conferencing and without client installation, today with VP8 Brokers Nancy Ridge. “We are excited to It runs straight from the browser, no
communications infrastructure without and with scalable VP9 in future,” said Ofer bring these new solutions to our Agent installation required, no sign-up required.
requiring user installation. The company
Shapiro, CEO, Vidyo. “Extending WebRTC Partners.”
Type dialzoo.me/anyone@email.com into
is also announcing the Vidyo Server for support into Vidyo’s platform and product Telecom Brokers was recently ranked in the browser’s address bar or in the form ield
WebRTC that will give users with browsers supporting WebRTC full participant access portfolio is a natural progression and a testament to our continued leadership role Orange County Business Journal’s 2014 list of Top 30 Telecommunications Companies of the dialzoo.me home page and a free
call is placed to anyone@email.com. Add
to Vidyo calls with no download required. in emerging standards in both the WebRTC amongst other companies including a dialzoo link (dialzoo.me/anyone@email.
The Vidyo Server for WebRTC will also and h.26x worlds. Adding support for Windstream, TelePaciic, and Level3. The com) to your website, social media post or
allow users to join a Vidyo conference in WebRTC allows our partners, developers full service master agency offers phone email signature and anyone can call you
voice and content sharing mode from non- and customers to better reach their end service, Internet, MPLS, Cloud Computing, instantly with a simple click.
WebRTC compliant browsers or mobile users.”
and other services to businesses across
Users who wish to receive the calls on
devices. The Vidyo Server for WebRTC will the country. Telecom Brokers’s extensive their phone lines (landline or mobile) just
enable interoperability between WebRTC, n More at www.vidyo.com portfolio contains 60+ service providers link their phone number to their email
scalable video coding (SVC), and legacy worldwide.
address in dialzoo; otherwise, the caller is
H.323 and SIP.
“We are thrilled to announce this invited to leave a dialzoo voicemail that will
Since 2008, the VidyoWorks platform
OnSIP Signs Telecom
partnership with Telecom Brokers,” said be forwarded to the recipient’s email inbox.
has enabled innovative new solutions and Brokers to Offer Next-Gen Mike Oeth, cofounder and CEO of OnSIP. Calls are always free for the callers,
service offerings for a variety of partners “Great partnerships come out of shared receivers who wish to receive the calls on
and customers. With the addition of WebRTC and Cloud PBX values and vision. Our companies believe their phones simply add credits to their
WebRTC support, users will be able to take in providing innovative solutions that help accounts (free credits while in beta). Rates
full advantage of Vidyo’s highly scalable and Solutions
end customers not only run, but grow
for receivers are extremely competitive
secure multi-point video infrastructure and their businesses. Together, we will support and ixed irrespective of where the call
its unique ability to support heterogeneous Master Agent adds award-winning OnSIP® Telecom Brokers agents with the expertise, originates from as dialzoo will route the
web, native desktop, legacy H.323, VDI and mobile environments.
InstaCall and business VoIP services to their training, and customer care needed to successfully deliver those solutions.” calls from a local Point of Presence to the phone.
“For years, Vidyo has been quietly portfolio
Cloud PBX provider OnSIP and master Headquartered in Manhattan, OnSIP has Uses for dialzoo are multiple: drop a
creating a new market model based on agent Telecom Brokers announced a
provided business VoIP services since
free voicemail to anyone in the world
embedding video communications into new partnership to offer next-generation 2004 and owns and operates its own anytime; allow your customers or leads
third party applications and services via the communications solutions to businesses technically-advanced, reliable platform. The to call you for free (and at a very low cost
VidyoWorks platform,” said Dave Michels, nationwide through their network of agents. company is an early adopter and supporter to you) right from your website; receive
SeniorAnalyst,WainhouseResearch. “The Telecom Brokers selected OnSIP, a leading of WebRTC, an open sourced project calls on your phone without revealing your
availability of the VidyoWorks WebRTC communications provider to over 30,000 originally started by Google, that allows
phone number; call home from abroad for
API along with support for VP8 in the businesses, for its unique pay-as-you-go for plugin-free, peer to peer audio, video, almost nothing; forget phone numbers, just
VidyoConferencing product portfolio, will pricing plans, BYOD lexibility, as well as and data transfer in the browser. For custom remember the email address!
give millions of consumer devices seamless its breakthrough features such as InstaCall.
and deeply integrated solutions, OnSIP As dialzoo uses WebRTC technology, the
access to Vidyo’s highly scalable platform, Winner of TMC’s 2014 Communications offers APIs and has built CRM integrations webapp is currently supported in Chrome
vastly increasing the number of potential Solution Product of the Year Award and for popular platforms such as Zendesk, and Firefox on desktops and in Chrome for
developer partners for the company.”
highlighted this year by Forbes.com and Salesforce.com, and Highrise. OnSIP has Android for smartphones. An iOS app is due
Support for VP9 is the next step in the
CRMBuyer.com, OnSIP InstaCall empowers
been awarded a patent entitled “System
soon.

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