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Make Calls Using a Browser

	Start Trial	Description
Quick Start You can start using our WebRTC-2-SIP service several ways: the easiest is you just use a running trial service with any WebRTC-capable browser. If you launch your own service, we recomend you launch a whole cluster using "Launch Cluster": this starts a full predefined cluster installation with load-balancing and auto-scaling and with minimum configuration effort. Alternatively you can start a single gateway instance.^* If you are stuck or want to learn more, check the webpage with Technical Details.	WebRTC API	Simple and complete examples of WebRTC client and server integration.

	Click2Dial	Add a button to your website to allow your webpage visitors to call your SIP phone by a single button click.
	WebRTC-2-SIP	Online WebRTC-to-SIP demo, all you need to start is just a SIP account. Hosted on https://tryit.frafos.com/
Launch Cluster (EU) This starts your own ready-made WebRTC-2-SIP auto-scalable cluster on amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2). You must have an AWS account. Upon pressing the button you will be asked for the type of virtual machine instance and the name of the SSH keypair in the region you have chosen. When Cloud Formation completes, the "Outputs" window will show the load-balancer URI under which the demo application is reachable. Allow several minutes for the instances to warm up. Launch Instance This starts a single virtual machine with WebRTC-2-SIP gateway on Amazon EC2. No granular firewall rules, failover and autoscaling process will be in place. Note that in the step "Security Group" you will have to manually create an "all-open" security policy permitting all traffic from any sources.
^* You must have an Amazon Web Services account -- if you don't have one yet you will need to sign up for it first. You will need a credit-card and telephone number for verification of payment and identity. Starting the gateway service using Amazon Web Service (AWS) may incur cost to AWS account holder. More about Amazon pricing can be found here.

Evolution

Modern browsers can make phone calls since 2013, while using the web-grade security unprecedented in telephony before. You can now start your own experimental frafos gateway service to inter-connect web-browsers to SIP networks. The gateway will be started off Amazon Elastic Cluster: you can launch instantly, without the IT pain of buying/integrating/maintaing equipment and it still remains your own service. You retain 100% control of its function and privacy. More than that you can deploy multiple geographic services for the globally finest experience and disaster resilience.

Modern Browsers

Currently available WebRTC-enabled browsers:

Firefox: version 23 and above; version 33 and above support H.264 video
Chrome: version 27 and above
Opera: version 20 above

Administrative Geography

The gateway service is independent of the SIP service it interconnects with. The gateway operator does not need necessarily to run a SIP service or serve all users of someone else's SIP service. Not even an agreement with a SIP service operator is needed, as long as a valid SIP account is set up. If the SIP service connects to the Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN), a browser-intiated call can even reach traditional telephony users. Note that the link between browser and the WebRTC-2-SIP gateway is encrypted using web security -- unprecedent level of security in public telephony's history.

Globally Finest Experience

Measurements show that inter-continental communication over the Internet dramatically impairs quality of speech and video. With a gateway on the same continent as its user, the round-trip time stays typically within 50 ms which yields good media quality. Going across continents adds in average 120ms which has devastating impact on the call quality. The EC2-hosted Frafos WebRTC-2-SIP gateway can be deployed in multiple availability zones and use proximity routing, so that users always talk to the nearest gateway.

Requirements and Limitations

Amazon Web Services Account must be established prior to launching a trial gateway and will incur cost charged by amazon. The service is a trial and comes "as is" and "as available" with no warranties and or representations of any kind. Call duration is limited to one minute. No SIP service is provided: the gateway service connects to an existing SIP service.

End-user Prerequisits

SIP account: SIP URI and password. E.g. "sip:adam@mycompany.com", "secret". If you don't have a SIP service yet, you may sign up for a free SIP service. Some are listed on http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Free+VoIP+Networks .
address of the cluster. E.g. "https://rtc.mycompany.com". This is the URL the administrator obtained after completion of cluster formation.

Click2Dial

Add a button to your website to allow your visitors to call you on a click of a button using only their browser.

Button Options

The options chosen here will update the button code on the right.

Button Preview and Demo

Copy and paste the code below into the HTML for your site:

Technical Details

Cluster and Auto-Scaling

There are two key technical elements: the actual "workhorse", WebRTC-2-SIP gateway, and its organization in the Amazon EC2. Starting the cluster creates a whole array of resources the administrator would have to provision manually otherwise: a group of gateway instances, a scaling plan to resize the cluster up and down (by default starting from one with maximum being four), a load-balancer and a set firewall rules. The auto-scaling conditions are triggered on achieving certain average CPU utilization thresholds for a period of several minutes. When a cluster is being scaled down, ongoing calls are not interrupted during a graceful period. When the period is over, the instances, calls on it and data on it will be terminated irrevokably.

Administrative Access

The gateway instances have administrative web-interace that can be accessed using username "sbcadmin" and password equal to Amazon instance id. You can also gain root access to Command-Line by secure-shelling to the machine using the SSH key creating when launching the instance/cluster.

User Access

Users can reach the gateway by opening an HTTP link with public IP address of the instance if launched as single instance. If started as a cluster, the load-balancer Web address appears in Cloud Formation Outputs.

Administrative Prerequisities

The administrator needs to have the following information:

Information	Where to Get It	Example
Amazon Web Services ID and geographic region	If you do not have an account ready, go to http://aws.amazon.com, click Sign up and follow instructions. Part of the procedure involves receiving a verification phone call and providing payment information. The account ID can be found under "My Account".	372325483748, EU-west
AWS SSH keypair for the targetted geographic region	In the EC2 Management Console under "Key Pairs"	mycompany-keypair, -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEpAIBA...

What Next...

... once the service is started? End-users can go to its web-page with a sample Javasrcipt application, and start accessing their SIP service using a WebRTC-ready browser. Administrators can fine-tune the service:

create a "nicer" DNS alias for the service than the default amazon naming policy creates.
They can administer the cluster status by going to amazon Console at http://console.aws.amazon.com and fine-tune. For example they can align the scaling plan, or they may introduce a more restrictive firewall rule permitting incoming SIP traffic only from well-known IP addresses.
They can monitor monitor the service using "CloudWatch".
They can access administrator interface of the currently running gateway instances by going to their respective HTTPS addresses.
They can start another cluster in some other geographic region to establish global presence and local experience for gateway users.
They can find more information on the Frafos Resources site.