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WebRTC Post-Mortem: Looking at the Good & the BadWebRTC Post-Mortem: Looking at the Good & the Bad

This year's Enterprise Connect WebRTC Conference-Within-a-Conference highlighted tangible use cases, as well as the continued browser constraints.

Irwin Lazar

April 7, 2016

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This year's Enterprise Connect WebRTC Conference-Within-a-Conference highlighted tangible use cases, as well as the continued browser constraints.

At this year's Enterprise Connect WebRTC Conference-within-a-Conference, speakers touched on a theme familiar to anyone who has been following the technology's evolution for the last few years: "The great promise of WebRTC constrained by continued lack of ubiquitous browser support." Here are my key takeaways:

So what's the state of WebRTC five years out? The bottom line is that WebRTC is here today in many applications used by people who don't realize (or don't care) that they're using it. With Microsoft increasing its support for WebRTC, and the likely joining of ORTC and WebRTC in the future, standards organizations and vendors continue to take steps toward realizing the vision of any browser-to-any browser, plug-in free, rich-media communications. Hopefully by Enterprise Connect 2017 we'll no longer need to focus on "when" and can turn all our attention to "how."

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Irwin Lazar

As president and principal analyst at Metrigy, Irwin Lazar develops and manages research projects, conducts and analyzes primary research, and advises enterprise and vendor clients on technology strategy, adoption and business metrics, Mr. Lazar is responsible for benchmarking the adoption and use of emerging technologies in the digital workplace, covering enterprise communications and collaboration as an industry analyst for over 20 years.

 

A Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and sought-after speaker and author, Mr. Lazar is a blogger for NoJitter.com and contributor for SearchUnifiedCommunications.com writing on topics including team collaboration, UC, cloud, adoption, SD-WAN, CPaaS, WebRTC, and more. He is a frequent resource for the business and trade press and is a regular speaker at events such as Enterprise Connect, InfoComm, and FutureIT. In 2017 he was recognized as an Emerging Technologies Fellow by the IMCCA and InfoComm.

 

Mr. Lazar’s earlier background was in IP network and security architecture, design, and operations where he advised global organizations and held direct operational responsibility for worldwide voice and data networks.

 

Mr. Lazar holds an MBA from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems from Radford University where he received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve, Ordnance Corps. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Outside of Metrigy, Mr. Lazar has been active in Scouting for over ten years as a Scouting leader with Troop 1882 in Haymarket VA.