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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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Introduction to mesh networking


Once your WebRTC application is working on multiple devices with a reasonable amount of security, the next question is: how do I scale this up to multiple users? One-to-one calls are great, but what if we can connect several users together inside one call? This is where we begin to dive into the world of mesh networking.

Mesh networking is a topic that has been around for a while. It's a term used in almost any technology that deals in the networking of multiple computers. In its most basic sense, a mesh network represents a set of computers that can all communicate with each other directly. Each node is connected with every other node in the network and no one node is responsible for the entire network:

There is a good chance that you have encountered many mesh networks in your lifetime. For example, the Internet is already a form of mesh network. So, when you send out a request for a certain web page, every node on the network works together to deliver that...

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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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