Janus, our general purpose WebRTC gateway, is still young but not a toddler anymore: it’s going to be two years old in just a few weeks! There we were, thinking about how to best celebrate this event, when it occurred to us that we actually never designed a logo for it. You may wonder as to why that happened, considering that’s what most projects work on first. The short answer is: we’re lazy and we’re really bad at graphics! The long answer instead is… well, I guess that’s it, actually. We worked hard on Janus itself, and never really bothered…

WebRTC is an amazing technology, when it works. With just a few lines of JavaScript code, you get audio and video streams with ease in your web page, and with the help of our open source Janus WebRTC gateway you can play with those media to do pretty much what you like. That said, WebRTC can also be incredibly frustrating to novices when it DOESN’T work, that is, whenever you think you did everything right and instead nothing works: you can see others, but others cannot see you, or all you see is a black screen where you expected a…

After several months of hard work, we’re finally proud to introduce you our latest creation: Janus, a general purpose, open source, WebRTC Gateway! Just as the well known Ancient Rome god had two faces, one looking at the past and one at the future, our own Janus always has two faces as well: one is WebRTC (the future, and a bright one), you choose which one the other should be! Whether you want to do media streaming, conferencing, recording, gatewaying to legacy stuff or whatever, Janus is conceived to allow you to do so. In fact, the Janus gateway was explicitly…