Hosting cost is the biggest barrier to building a video conferencing solution which scales to millions of users. We setup a Jitsi meet instance and with just 6 parties it pegged a core on the server CPU at 50%.
Admittedly one of the users was on Firefox which causes CPU load to spike with Jitsi but either way video conferencing is bandwidth and processor intensive.
Otherwise the WebRTC technology is stable and works well across browsers - especially for audio. Just scaling it and getting folks to pay for it so it’s economically feasible to host is another thing.
Admittedly one of the users was on Firefox which causes CPU load to spike with Jitsi but either way video conferencing is bandwidth and processor intensive.
Otherwise the WebRTC technology is stable and works well across browsers - especially for audio. Just scaling it and getting folks to pay for it so it’s economically feasible to host is another thing.
Jitsi have some good videos about autoscaling/load balancing Jitsi Meet here: https://jitsi.org/news/tag/tutorial/