Ericsson’s Bowser to Enable Users to Make Audio and Video Calls

By NewsfromAfrica

As communication between people changes drastically with new ways of communicating constantly emerging, Ericsson Research has announced the launch of the world’s first Web real-time communication (WebRTC) application called Bowser.

 With Bowser, which is available on iPad/iPhone and on android devices, one can establish audio and video calls with other devices using WebRTC.

 WebRTC is based on work ongoing within the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force to develop a standard, interoperable approach to real-time communication (RTC) using audio and video in Web browsers without the need for any plug-ins.

Kristofer Dovstam, Master Researcher at Ericsson Research, said: “We believe WebRTC is a very important part of future communication solutions in our industry, and are excited to provide developers with the first version of our experimental WebRTC-enabled browser.”

Ericsson Research is heavily involved in the standardization of WebRTC, and has been developing prototype implementations of the evolving standard for over two years. With Bowser, developers can finally start experimenting with real-time audio and video functionality in mobile web applications.

Ericsson also has solutions to let WebRTC enabled browsers easily connect to IMS-based communication networks.

Bowser is available today as a free download on different mobile application stores.