In this blog post, we cover a new congestion control method that probes for additional capacity with redundant data (FEC).

We are excited to announce another new integration this month: Voximplant Web SDK v4. We have been working with Voximplant to bring the callstats.io integration to their customers. With this integration, callstats.io will bring analytics and monitoring for Voximplant Web SDK v4 users right from the start.

This is a followup blog post to an earlier post on error resilience mechanisms for video. As mentioned in the previous blog post, there are multiple error resilience mechanisms that can be used to resolve issues with lost media packets. In this blog post, we will cover Forward Error Correction, which sends repair packets to automatically recover the lost packet.

Congestion control algorithms have been studied extensively for TCP since the 1980s. In the 1990s Voice and Video over IP has been emerged and products required to implement congestion control algorithms to adapt the quality of the media stream based on the network behavior. Instead of its history, this blog-post is intended to give a short introduction about its schematic implementation point of view.

At the heart of the internet is our desire to communicate, webpages, tweets, blog posts, etc, all these are part of today’s digital conversation. This too is evolving and get more conversational: Bots, live streaming, video calls, and drones are part of the new trend. In this blog post, we will cover a few trends that we have observed over the past few months.

Callstats.io became an official member of the W3C at the beginnig of 2016. Since, there have been a few updates to the WebRTC Statistics API document. Read the blog post to get the details on the latest updates to the spec.

In the beginning of the year we published a third-party authentication proposal to solicit feedback from the community for an enhanced security framework. Based on the feedback, we chose the mechanism using JWT (JSON Web Tokens). We recently released the new authentication to a few selected customers and now release it to everyone.

Callstats.io, the industry leader in Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) analytics, today announced $3 million in financing to accelerate the development and growth of its monitoring and management platform for WebRTC-powered audio and video communications. Silicon Valley-based True Ventures led the Series A funding round, which also included funding from seed investor Lifeline Ventures.

We have released a Help Center for frequently asked questions. The Help Center covers five topics: General, My account, Integrations, Metrics and definitions, and Security and privacy.

Pexip provides distributed, virtualized software based conferencing solutions for various communication technologies. The good people at Pexip created an integration to callstats.io. Read the blog post for the full details.

We updated the URL structure in our dashboard. The update offers better behaviour when refreshing a conference page or sharing the link with another user. Read full blog post for details.

There are many different ways to monitor a WebRTC solution. Usually companies have three different teams that are keeping a status of the service: customer support, DevOps and engineering.

Getting access to user media, ie. camera and microphone, is one of the first things a WebRTC application needs to do. In this blog post we will go through the different getUserMedia error types and show how they appear in the callstats.io dashboard.

We are excited to announce another new integration this month – Twilio Client SDK. We have been working with Twilio to bring the callstats.io integration to their customers. With this integration, products using the Twilio Client SDK get callstats.io support right from the start.

callstats.io named in the “Cool Vendors in Unified Communications 2016” report by Gartner.