WebRTC? Just another buzz word in enterprise telecommunication, or else?

The technology market has been witnessing many buzz words during all times. But a few among them have really evolved as a phenomena and have created major shifts in how the world of communication progresses. Just like cloud computing, big data and others the initial inertia for webRTC do exists in the enterprise arena. But just like the former, the prospect of webRTC to emerge as a disruptive technology is really high as the benefits out of it not only impacts one spend area of an enterprise. Despite impacting the cost of the conferencing or calling, it also enhances some of the day to day operations involving more of dealing with customers. This paper focuses on the benefits and limitations, feasibility, adoption rate and risks of implementing webRTC in the communication network of any enterprise. The major questions that are answered in this paper are ? What exactly is WebRTC? What does WebRTC Change? What are the technical nuances of WebRTC? What is the future prospect of WebRTC in enterprise telecom network? How do enterprises go about adopting webRTC? What are the risks for enterprises while adopting WebRTC? What exactly isWebRTC? WebRTC is an Application Programming Interface (API) which enables browser based real time communication. This has been drafted by World Wide Web Consortium. It enables browser-to-browser communication of audio, video calls and file sharing. WebRTC is not a product or software which has to be brought or for which a license has to be acquired. It is also not an application that has to be built with an IT team in place or to be outsourced to an IT vendor. WebRTC is a standard, which is supported by various browsers for real time communication of multimedia content such as video and voice. This influences the communication to happen over internet infrastructure, without any plug-ins or third party application to be installed.