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Air-Gapped Video Conferencing: What Zero Internet Actually Requires

An air gap does not break the call — media never needed the internet. It breaks everything around the call: the certificates a browser demands before it opens a camera, the clock your timestamps depend on, the update path, the licence check. What an isolated deployment actually requires.

video compliance

Video Data Residency: Where Your Media Legally Has to Live

Video data residency usually gets answered with a region dropdown. That covers the bucket — not the relay, the recorder, the backup copy or the transcription service. What EU, US and Indian law actually require about where video lives, and what in-country has to include.

Video Architecture

Video Deployment Architecture: Where the Media Flows and What You Can Prove

In any video deployment architecture, WebRTC encrypts every hop — and the SFU decrypts, because forwarding requires it. Which component sees cleartext, where each of a call's four flows goes in each deployment model, and the evidence that proves it.

Self-hosted Video

Video Deployment Models: On-Prem, Managed Cloud or SaaS — and Your Data Story

Every security questionnaire asks where your data goes and who can reach it. Your choice among video deployment models has already answered. On-prem, managed cloud and SaaS, compared on the claims each lets you make — and why in-country is not the same as in control.

Self-hosted Video

Self-Hosted Video Architecture: What You Actually Run to Self-Host Real-Time Video

A self-hosted video architecture is seven components, not one media server: signalling, SFUs, TURN, recording, storage, capacity and the network edge. Three of them decide where your media actually goes. The inventory, with what breaks when each is missing.

Self-hosted Video

Self-Hosted Video Cost: What Running It Yourself Actually Costs

Servers are the cheapest line in self-hosted video cost: a million participant-minutes a month needs under $300 of compute at list prices. The bill is decided by where your egress lands and how much engineering time you commit — and the break-even moves with both.

TURN Cost

The TURN Bill: The Self-Hosted Video Cost Nobody Forecasts

Everyone budgets for the media server. Almost nobody budgets for the relay that sits in front of it — even though roughly one session in five goes through it, and a relayed stream is paid for twice. Here is what TURN actually adds to a self-hosting bill, and what skipping it costs instead.

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