Development of a browser-based Audio/Video Application using HTML5 and WebRTC

Abstract

Rich Communication Services (RCS) is an industry effort focused on the use of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) for providing enhanced mobile phone communication services. RCS’s goal is to enable subscribers to establish calls between eachother despite their mobile operator and device type. Since this is only possible through unified standards RCS is a reliable base for communications standardization. The Web is an environment where users communicate with each other frequently. Web-based solutions can reach a wide variety of devices. New technologies such as WebRTC and Firefox OS come to push the web to the next level. WebRTC is the next step in browser-based real-time communications. It consists in adding native support for real-time audio and video communications in a web-browser. Firefox OS is an Operative System for mobile devices built upon HTML5 in development by Mozilla. WIT Software is a RCS Unified Communications solution provider, WIT’s Communications Suite (WCS) is complete set of communication products, for web, mobile and desktop scenarios. In this internship, the main goal is to develop two RCS client applications to be added to the WCS family of products. A new Web-Based client built atop WebRTC and a new mobile client for Firefox OS.