The open WebRTC initiative, supported by Google, Mozilla, Opera and others, enables development of rich, web-based Real-Time Communications (RTC) multimedia applications such as video chat, file/screen-sharing and other two-way communications.

Companies bringing WebRTC applications to mobile devices must consider challenges such as power consumption, packet losses in wireless environments, bandwidth availability, echo cancellation and resource/memory availability, among others.

Krishna Yarlagadda, president, Imagination Inc., says: “Imagination has deep expertise in developing media engines and related technologies, and our HelloSoft V.VoIP and VoLTE clients have already shipped in millions of devices worldwide. With this experience and leadership in building a wide range of leading IP for mobile platforms and other resource constrained devices, we understand the issues faced by our customers in bringing WebRTC to mobile. With our advanced algorithms encapsulated in an off-the-shelf product, we are enabling our customers to dramatically improve the WebRTC user experience.”

Research firm Disruptive Analysis predicts that by the end of 2014, 1.6 billion devices will support WebRTC, growing to 4.7 billion by the end of 2017.

Dean Bubley, director of Disruptive Analysis, says: “We’re seeing adoption of WebRTC particularly growing in mobile devices, where cloud-enabled apps, WebRTC platform providers and iOS/Android support are driving new use cases and spurring developer interest. Audio/video quality is an important element which will help drive widespread consumer adoption, but it has many angles. Often overlooked are issues such as acoustic echo cancellation and media performance, in a wide range of physical operating conditions for devices. It’s good to see innovation and focus in that domain.”

Features:

－ Improved voice quality for speaker phone functionality across platforms with pre-processing modules for acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), noise cancellation (NC) and more

－ Superior quality voice and video under lossy wireless environments through Imagination’s DVQM (Dynamic Video Quality Management) and EVQM (Enhanced Voice Quality Management) algorithms that mitigate up to 30% of packet losses

－ Optimized for major processor architectures including the MIPS CPU architecture, with support for Android, iOS, Windows and Linux-based operating systems

－ Support for a comprehensive list of voice codecs including OPUS, G.722, G.722.1, AMR-WB, AMR-NB, G.729ab, G.723.1, G.711, Speex, EVRC, iLBC; plus video codecs including VP8 and H.264

－ Leverage of the hardware video accelerators available on a device, such as PowerVR video codecs found in millions of devices