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Daniel M. Ristic
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Dan Ristic is a frontend engineer and evangelist for Open Web. He strives to push the Web forward with new and creative ideas using the latest technologies. He attended the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, where he furthered his engineering knowledge and fueled his passion for the Web. He has been writing applications on the Web ever since. He currently lives and works in San Francisco as a senior software engineer at Sony Network Entertainment International. At Sony, he is responsible for managing the frontend application architecture and delivering the PlayStation Store to millions of users. In his free time, he can be found hiking, exploring, working on projects, and attending events.
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The WebRTC API


The next few sections will cover the WebRTC API currently implemented in the browser. These functions and objects allow developers to communicate with the WebRTC layer and make peer connections to other users. It consists of a few main pieces of technology:

  • The RTCPeerConnection object

  • Signaling and negotiation

  • Session Description Protocol (SDP)

  • Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE)

The RTCPeerConnection object

The RTCPeerConnection object is the main entry point to the WebRTC API. It is what allows us to initialize a connection, connect to peers, and attach media stream information. It handles the creation of a UDP connection with another user. It is time to get familiar with this name because you will be seeing it a lot throughout the rest of the book.

The job of the RTCPeerConnection object is to maintain the session and state of a peer connection in the browser. It also handles the setup and creation of a peer connection. It encapsulates all of these things and exposes...

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Daniel M. Ristic

Dan Ristic is a frontend engineer and evangelist for Open Web. He strives to push the Web forward with new and creative ideas using the latest technologies. He attended the University of Advancing Technology, Arizona, where he furthered his engineering knowledge and fueled his passion for the Web. He has been writing applications on the Web ever since. He currently lives and works in San Francisco as a senior software engineer at Sony Network Entertainment International. At Sony, he is responsible for managing the frontend application architecture and delivering the PlayStation Store to millions of users. In his free time, he can be found hiking, exploring, working on projects, and attending events.
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