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'''OpenWebRTC''' (OWR) is a free [[software stack]] that implements the [[WebRTC]] standard, a set of protocols and [[application programming interface]]s defined by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) and the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF).

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It is an alternative to the [[reference implementation]] that is based on software from [[Global IP Solutions]] (GIPS).

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'''OpenWebRTC''' (OWR) is a free [[software stack]] that implements the [[WebRTC]] standard, a set of protocols and [[application programming interface]]s defined by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C) and the [[Internet Engineering Task Force]] (IETF). It is an alternative to the [[reference implementation]] that is based on software from [[Global IP Solutions]] (GIPS).

It is published under the terms of the [[BSD licenses#2-clause license ("Simplified BSD License" or "FreeBSD License")|Simplified (2-clause) BSD license]] and officially supports [[iOS]], [[Linux]], [[OS X]], and [[Android (operating system)|Android]] operating systems. It is meant to also work outside web browsers, e.g. to power [[native (computing)#Applications|native]] [[mobile app]]s.

It is meant to also work outside webbrowsers, e.g. to power native mobile apps.

It is mostly written in [[C (programming language)|C]] and based largely on the multimedia framework [[GStreamer]] and a number of other, smaller external [[programming library (computing)|libraries]]. It officially supports both [[VP8]] and [[H.264/MPEG-4 AVC|H.264]] as video formats. For H.264 it uses [[OpenH264]] to which [[Cisco Systems|Cisco]] pays the patent licensing bills.

Development of OpenWebRTC started at [[Ericsson]] Research under the lead of Stefan Ålund. They released it as [[free software]] in September 2014, together with the proof-of-concept web browser "Bowser" that is based on the stack. Among other things, this initial version didn't support data channels yet and was said to still be less mature than Google's reference implementation.

They released it as [[free software]] in August 2014, together with the proof-of-concept webbrowser "Bowser" that is based on the stack. Among other things, this initial version didn't support datachannels yet and was said to still be less mature than Google's reference implementation.

==References==

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* {{cite web |first=David |last=Meyer |date=2 October 2014 |url=https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/ericsson-open-sources-openwebrtc-to-provide-alternative-to-googles-webrtc-implementation/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112074937/https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/ericsson-open-sources-openwebrtc-to-provide-alternative-to-googles-webrtc-implementation/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 November 2014 |title=Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, providing rival to Google's WebRTC implementation |work=GigaOm |publisher=Knowingly}}

* {{Cite web |first=Mikael |last=Ricknäs |date=2 October 2014 |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691212 |title=Ericsson releases WebRTC browser and framework as open source |work=[[PC World]] |publisher=[[IDG]] |access-date=30 August 2016 |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019020153/https://www.pcworld.com/article/2691212/ericsson-releases-webrtc-browser-and-framework-as-open-source.html |url-status=dead }}

* {{Cite web |first=Sebastian |last=Grüner |date=2 October 2014 |url=http://www.golem.de/1410/109604 |title=Ericsson: Freies WebRTC-Framework für native Client-Software |work=golem.de}}

* {{Cite web |first=Tsahi |last=Levent-Levi, November |date=3, November 2014: [|url=https://bloggeek.me/ericssons-openwebrtc-project/ What’s|title=What's Behind Ericsson’sEricsson's OpenWebRTC Project?] |work=blogGeek.me}}

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==External links==

* [http://www.openwebrtc.org/ Official{{official website]}}

* [https://github.com/EricssonResearch/OpenWebRTC Source code repository]

==References==

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* https://gigaom.com/2014/10/02/ericsson-open-sources-openwebrtc-to-provide-alternative-to-googles-webrtc-implementation/

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* http://www.pcworld.com/article/2691212

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* http://www.golem.de/1410/109604

* Tsahi Levent-Levi, November 3, 2014: [https://bloggeek.me/ericssons-openwebrtc-project/ What’s Behind Ericsson’s OpenWebRTC Project?]

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