According to an entry in the Jitsi Blog the development team of the conferencing solution and the open source video chat offers a hosted version of the software in a timely manner. The service "Jitsi as a Service" (JaaS) is said to be the "world's easiest way to embed video conferencing into your apps and websites," according to its operator. Customers could thus use the Advantages from Jitsi, without having to worry about a correspondingly powerful Hosting to have to worry about.
The launch of the service is in response to the Covid pandemic and the resulting boom in video chat applications. According to the announcement, in recent months, an increasing number of schools, universities and businesses have begun to deploy their own instances of the software. host. In addition, the public Jitsi instance also has meet.jit.si gained significantly more users.
Creative use of Jitsi
Away from traditional videoconferencing, the team has also observed over the past year that Jitsi is becoming "fit for purpose" in a number of creative uses. Jitsi now wants to map these usage scenarios directly in its own application in order to be able to offer as many possible uses as possible. Meaning, among other things, "collaboration on continuing education to happy hours and dungeons-and-dragons game nights."
The JaaS solution offers the possibility to easily integrate the video solution into existing apps and web applications by means of an iFrame API and a mobile SDK. For better integration, JaaS also offers different web hooks and strong authentication. Paid for via a "simple pricing model based on number of users," the company's new 8×8 service is expected to be available for up to Up to 25 users per month, JaaS will remain free of charge, including hosting.
Of course, one should be careful for data protection reasons with whom the Data are stored. Jitsi is actually best suited for a self-hosted solution, so that the video streams are not stored and possibly evaluated by third parties. However, the software can be very easily installed on a virtual server install and operate.
