Analysis of WebRTC vs others for video consultation feature for EHRs
A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis of WebRTC is crucial to understand its position in the real-time communication landscape. WebRTC itself is an open standard and a set of APIs, not a commercial product. 1 Its "competitors" are typically: CPaaS (Communication Platform as a Service) providers: These companies (e.g., Twilio Video, Agora, Vonage, Dyte, VideoSDK, MirrorFly, AWS Chime SDK, EnableX, Daily, SignalWire) build their services on top of WebRTC, offering pre-built SDKs, APIs, and backend infrastructure to simplify development and handle scalability, signaling, and TURN servers. 2 Traditional video conferencing solutions: Proprietary software like Zoom, Microsoft Teams (though they often incorporate WebRTC for certain functionalities). 3 Other real-time communication protocols/technologies: WebSockets, gRPC, MQTT, HTTP/3, etc., which might be used for data transfer in real-time, but aren't natively designed for audio/video peer-to-p...