You can record the sessions but it’s only the audio (no video recording). Conference IDs to join a PSTN call have more digits than a nuclear rocket launcher. There were some ‘nits’ I found with the product though. Chime supports traditional PSTN dial-in (remember that) but is charging a per-minute rate for this. There is a corresponding mobile app, which worked, but quite basic.
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The $15 a user for the Pro is quite a widespread from the $2.50 Plus package.
While the app looked nice, the end pricing is less so. sf based Biba had raised just over $15m since it’s founding in 2013. With a SFU technology each party has control over the video segments they are receiving.Ĭhime is based upon Biba Systems technology which AWS quietly acquired in November 2016.
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What does that mean? For example, say you want to see “Tom” full screen and Sally wants to see “Harry” full screen, you generally can’t have this flexibility with an MCU video mixer. An MCU mixes the video in a central server and this typically limits layout controls to a single view per session. Couldn’t figure that one out.ĭoes this matter? Yes and no. Note: You can join a Chime session using nothing but a browser, but you can only view the shared screen (no audio or video). In short, the current WebRTC police conclusion is the platform is an MCU (meaning it mixes the video) and perhaps AWS is using a heavily modified version of FreeSWITCH.Ĭhime has a screen/application window sharing feature (which is not using WebRTC). Is Chime using an SFU (selective forwarding unit) or MCU (multi-control unit) for the video? It’s hard to say, virtually everything is encrypted so we watched the behavior of the data streams.
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Interesting, AWS has implemented some strict bandwidth controls, Chime won’t use more than 600 kbps no matter how many parties join a video.Ĭhime also was careful not to crush my CPU (a oft problem with WebRTC applications gone bad), even with 5 people in a call my Mac Pro Energy Impact never went > 130 and on typical calls was been 100 – 115. I have my best people on it, but for the moment it appears to be using the WebRTC core library and utilizing VP8 as the video codec, audio quality is high and appears to be Opus. Chime is not browser application and instead is downloadable executable. The WebRTC Detective Team is on the case but early indications are YES, AWS Chime is using WebRTC. This should be a warning shot across the bow of traditional Unified Comms suppliers. Chime is positioning where you can be notified to join a session. Unlike a typical WebEx session where you join and leave. The most interesting aspect of Chime is it wants to run all the time (foreground or background). My first impressions are mostly positive. Nonetheless, it’s a start and it’s a marker on the table to say AWS is playing in the collaboration space. So Chime is neither fish nor fowl at the moment. It’s not got the chat functionality you’d see in Slack and the audio/video capabilities won’t likely scare or Skype sufficiently. At first glance, it’s hard to tell who AWS is swiping at? Chime isn’t as fully featured as GoToMeeting or WebEx. However, this is (to my knowledge) the first real user-facing application that AWS has introduced. Amazon has been working towards more user level enterprise services with the introduction of WorkDocs (a swipe at Box.net) and WorkMail (trying to take on /Exchange). Amazon announced their Chime service/application today which offers an audio/video conferencing service with an orientation to enterprise customers.
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