EnThinnai RTC is now based on WebRTC
Nov 19th, 2013 by Aswath
As early as 2008, EnThinnai supported the ability to conduct IM and voice chats. At that time a Java applet was dynamically downloaded to the browser. Then the browser maintained a two-way signaling channel with the server that allowed asynchronous notification from the server to the browser – a proto Websocket you may say. The applet also contained Speex codec which was used to provide real-time speech capability – fully anticipating WebRTC.
And we were in a bind to extend this feature further. There were no freely available video codec to extend the feature to support video communication. Leading mobile devices did not support Java. Users were disabling Java due to security concerns. For us, it is a defining use case for an unregistered user to initiate a communication session with a registered user (Guest access). This means the capability afforded by the Java applet must be universally available. This is precisely the objective of WebRTC.
Now that WebRTC has reached a stable stage, we have replaced Java applet with WebRTC. So users can use any WebRTC-enabled browser to communicate under EnThinnai.