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Felipe
Felipe

Reputation: 41

Does google meet use WebRTC

I am new to webrtc development, I would like to create a conference room with multiples connections. I have read about webrtc and peer communication. I would like to know if google meet used one peer connection for every participants one another. If so, how can they handle 250 participants without draining the browser resources?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6389

Answers (1)

lnogueir
lnogueir

Reputation: 2085

For group calls, Google Meets does not use peer-to-peer, if that was the case, it would drain one's bandwidth very quickly and browser resources quickly.

Although I am not exactly sure about Meets' infrastructure, they most likely use a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) to be able to handle lots of connections, since it's common practice for this sort of application.

The SFU works as a webrtc client server-side, and it basically just forwards the stream to clients that are requesting it browser-side.

Upvotes: 3

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