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This blog post describes how to start Ant Media Server instance on an AWS Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine instance. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform, offering compute power, database storage, content delivery, and other functionality to help businesses scale and grow. AWS Marketplace is an online software store that helps customers find, buy, and immediately start using the software and services that run on AWS. Step 1) Log in to AWS Console First, you need to log in the AWS Read more…

This guide describes how to install and set up Ant Media Server on a Microsoft Azure Marketplace  Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine instance. Microsoft Azure is a cloud-computing platform that virtualizes computing resources as virtual machines. Step 1- Sign up for Microsoft Azure You should subscribe to Microsoft Azure before using Ant Media Server on Microsoft Azure. If you’re new to Microsoft Azure, Microsoft offers a free 30-day and 200$ trial so you can try it out. You should use a Microsoft Read more…

In this post, we will show you how easy it is to install Ant Media Server on Google Cloud Platforms. Actually, Google Cloud is a very convenient platform to try Ant Media Server. Because when you register in Google Cloud, you have 300$ quota to use free. Step 1 – How to Create new instance on the Google Cloud Platform? First, we create a new project in Google Developer Console. Next step, click Compute Engine Read more…

In previous posts, we have introduced WebRTC technology and basic concepts. As we discussed in previous posts WebRTC is for peer-to-peer communication on browsers. However, you can still use it in multiparty applications with one-to-many or many-to-many attendees. Besides, to use WebRTC in such a project you need WebRTC servers for the most times. In this post, we will introduce WebRTC servers and new concepts such as Multipoint Conferencing Unit (MCU), Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU), transcoding and Read more…

Here is the 3rd of WebRTC blog series. The first blog describes the WebRTC ecosystem and elements. The second blog gives WebRTC Basics and Components. Now let’s have look at WebRTC Peer-to-Peer Communication procedure. Basics of WebRTC Peer-to-Peer Connection For WebRTC Peer-To-Peer Communication, two clients create a direct connection between each other after completing signaling operations. First, both clients get media sources. Then one of them starts signaling procedures. As stated in the below figure, Browser Read more…

We have published a previous post about WebRTC and WebRTC servers without any technical details. Unlike the first post, in this second part of our WebRTC blog post series, we will introduce the WebRTC basics and technical terms: SDP, ICE, STUN Server, TURN Server, RTP, and Signalling. I want to explain WebRTC concept with an example. Let Client-A and Client-B are two pairs who want to communicate via WebRTC. Assume that Client-A starts the communication. Read more…