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Updates

• Jicofo
• Authentication : Saml v2
• Multibridge support
• Load balancing
• LastN
• Nightly support
• Statistics and logging system

News

• Atlassian has just acquired Blue Jimp,
• Jitsi will continue to evolve as an opensource

project,

• BlueJimp team will concentrate on Jitsi

Videobridge, Jigasi, Jirecon, Jitsi Meet.

JICOFO

• JItsi COnference FOcus is a server side focus

component

• 1. Managing Colibri channels for participants

and establishing media flow to/from the JVB.

• 2. Bridge load balancing based on conference

count.

• 3. Can handle client authentication(optionally)

JICOFO

• 4. Takes part in some features implementation

like :

– audio muting, – recording, – SIP calls, – Verify user permissions: only moderators are allowed to start new SIP call or mute others.

Authentication

• Allow FedID account : Shibboleth
• Only authenticated users can create a new

room.

• All guest participants can join a room without

authentication.

Multi bridge support

• Jitsi Meet is able to run with multiple bridges

registered,

• Renater deployed 2 bridges,
• Multiple bridges support allows load

balancing feature

• It also allows to operate the service if a bridge

is down.

Load balancing

• Load balancing is provided by Jicofo
• It requires to run more than one bridge
• Live registration is not supported yet, but

could come soon,

• Restart process is required to register a bridge:

need to schedule operation while the service is not used (SHOULD BE IMPROVE)

LastN

• LastN is activated on « rendez-vous »
• Last week we tested a conference with 19

participants

• This feature needs to be improved.

Nightly

• The developement to support Firefox was

committed.

• « rendez-vous » can be accessed with the

Nightly version of Firefox.

• Firefox does not support simulcast.

REST API

• RENATER developed a REST API to manage the

service

• Allow Scheduling support
• Avoid name collisions
• Manage moderators list

Stats & Logging

• InfluxDB based
• Store and relate informations from different

components:

– Jicofo – Jitsi Videobridge – Browser (through Jicofo)

• This system allows us to be more precise, we

drastically revised our previous numbers.

Stats & Logging

• Relevant numbers since production

started(march 16th):

• 5000 conferences (2500 conf per month)
• Total conference time :

– 209088 Min – 3485 H – 145 D

• Average time : 42 min.

Next steps

• Firefox support : v 38 ?
• Build a European mesh of video bridges.
• Improve the infrastructure.
• Develop use cases
• …