1. “Rendez-Vous”: Web(RTC) Conference as a Service Franck Rupin RENATER TNC15 Porto, Portugal 15-18 june 2015 1

2. Introduction « Rendez-vous » –Web conferencing service –Based on WebRTC –Chrome, Chromium, Opéra, Nightly. –Chat, Etherpad, Desktop sharing… 2

3. Step 1 Step 2 Share the « rendez-vous » URL 3

4. The rise of WebRTC Advantages –Client-side solution is simple –No plugin –No complex network configuration for end-user : skype-like High technology engineering: –Assemble a lot of standards from various layers in order to deliver an easy access service for end-users 4

5. Service in production January 2014 –First tests with Jitsi Videobridge May 2014 –Tests with French community October 2014 –kick off pilot plateform with GEANT community (GN3+ SA7/T1) March 2015 –Service « Rendez-vous » in production 5

6. Jisti Videobridge What is Jitsi Videobridge ? An OpenSource project A multi-layer application –WebRTC : Chrome/Chromium/Opéra/Nightly –XMPP –Media Nice features : Virtual Machine, Simulcast, LastN, ICE Tcp, API… 6

7. Service stack 7

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10. Models Full-Mesh 10

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12. Models Full-Star 12

13. Operator Side What was missing for production ? –Monitoring –Authentication –High Availability –Load balancing –Scalability 13

14. Authentication Allow FedID account : Shibboleth Only authenticated users can create a new room. All guest participants can join a room without authentication. 14

15. Videobridges High Availability Jitsi Videobridge can run with multiple bridges Renater deployed 2 bridges It allows to operate the service with redundancy and load balancing 15

16. Loadbalancing The 2 videobridges successfully balanced the workload 16

17. First service statistics Bridges specifications: –8 vcpu –8 GB Memory –Network interface 1 GB For the two first months: –5000 conferences (2500 conf per month) –Total conference time : 209088 Min, 3484 H,145 days –Conference average time : 42 min. 17

18. Scalability Processor usage 18

19. Scalability Bandwith usage 19

20. Conclusion Provide access to VC users that previously does not have (Students) “Rendez-vous” has proved a tremendous success with our users Service can scale with cost optimizations Open and foster the VC development … GEANT SA7 & SA8 20

21. Thanks and try it out! 21