The Janus WebRTC Server has been conceived as a general purpose server.
As such, it doesn’t provide any functionality per se other than implementing the means to set up a WebRTC media communication with a browser, exchanging JSON messages with it, and relaying RTP/RTCP and messages between browsers and the server-side application logic they’re attached to. Any specific feature/application is provided by server side plugins, that browsers can then contact via Janus to take advantage of the functionality they provide. Example of such plugins can be implementations of applications like echo tests, conference bridges, media recorders, SIP gateways and the like.
This is free and open source software.
Website: github.com/meetecho/janus-gateway
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Developer: Meetecho
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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