Singapore Startup Temasys Builds Next Generation Web Communication

Singapore startups last month unveiled its Skyway platform a combination of tools and infrastructure that allow developers to quickly incorporate real-time Web Communication (WebRTC) in browsers, applications, websites and Internet-connected devices. This month, launch a plug-in for WordPress, Joomla and Drupal. In other words, if you have a site that is hosted on one of the content management systems such as Forbes.com ago-which may soon be able to carry out high quality audio or video chat with a reader or enter interactively from a seminar that home site or blog.

Skyway is not a consumer product, but in a few years, we should all benefit. Customers are developers and companies who want to create better, more reliable services communication cost. For example, messaging applications such as Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat could build Skyway add HD video. Snapchat could add audio and video functions. So could Facebook. Smartphones may soon be able to support up to four people on a single call.

In relation to the existing interactive video, like Skype, the Skyway tools can improve the quality of audio and video while taking much less bandwidth. In the image below for video connections application built with IBM tools, the visual quality is sharper than Skype. Skype Skyway tools could also be adapted to allow more users to participate in a group chat that currently.

At present, the high-quality multi-party video conferencing is very expensive at the facility; overcome this problem more possibilities for distance education, training, health and telemedicine will open.

I was particularly interested in WebRTC when I learned that eliminate the need to download a separate application like WhatsApp or (ugh! not get me started) or a Skype browser plug-ins or add-ons that require Java or (ugh, ugh) Flash. No need to make sure our chat partner has the same application. Not even need to sign up for accounts for your application.

Finally, Web RTC is integrated in all browsers, web, applications and devices. Leading the way, the new editions of Chrome and Firefox have already been designed to be compatible with applications WebRTC. Once WebRTC becomes ubiquitous, including financial operations start video audio and text chats and calls, simply by clicking on a URL or web link (which raises the question of the future role of the telco).

World Wide WebRTC Working Group

The Web does not evolve into the next generation willy-nilly, of course. The working groups within the World Wide Web Consortium's first agreement on the fundamental rules underlying open-source or reference codes.

In the case of WebRTC working group, only seven of the 37 member companies are collaborating to create the reference code to update online interactions. As supporters tend to be honest, WebRTC will be the first technology invented "from scratch" specifically to facilitate interactions online. The members of the group are big players like Google, Mozilla, Intel, Imagination Technologies as well as two years Temasys, which has only 16 employees, all in Singapore.

The same reference code (often dubbed the "DNA") is a collection of simple application programming interfaces (APIs Javascript) that specify how software components must interact with each other. On top of that reference number, around 300 companies are building products server-side infrastructure, development tools such as Mobile Software Developer Kit (SDK), or products aimed at customers such as the services of one voice. Temasys is doing both infrastructure products and development tools.

"What Temasys with Skyway is offering is an easy way for developers to incorporate into their products WebRTC without a lot of tedious coding from scratch," as a writer with Real Time Communications to put it. "With the API of the company based in Singapore, and widgets SDK CMS can develop proof-of-concept applications quickly."

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