We design the real-time architecture behind your product — topology (P2P, SFU, MCU, or hybrid), media-server selection, and the scaling plan that holds up under load. Architecture blueprint in 1 week from 3$K. Our designs run sub-300 ms group video at 10,000 concurrent.
Whether you are designing a new real-time system, outgrowing peer-to-peer, choosing a media server, or fixing an architecture that buckles under load, we have made these calls before — at hundreds of millions of minutes a month.
The topology decision shapes cost, scale, and quality more than any other choice in a real-time build. There is no universal winner — there is the right one for your call size, features, and budget. Here is how we pick.
Most production systems we design are SFU, or a hybrid that adds selective MCU mixing only where it earns its cost. We pick on your numbers, not a default. New to the trade-offs? See WebRTC architecture for production systems.
A real-time architecture is a stack of decisions that compound — get the topology or the scaling model wrong early and you re-architect later. Here is the blueprint we design and how we get there.
Concurrency, call sizes, quality bar, budget, compliance, and (if you have one) the current architecture’s pain points.
P2P, SFU, MCU, or hybrid, with the reasoning written down so your team understands the trade-offs, not just the answer.
mediasoup, LiveKit, Janus, Pion, Kurento, or a CPaaS — chosen on your features and scale, vendor-agnostic.
Multi-region SFU, Redis routing, failover, a load model, and a cost model so you know what scale costs before you build.
We build the architecture, or hand you the design docs and diagrams for your team to build. Your call.
The result holds sub-300 ms group video and scales without re-architecting — the topology and scaling model are right from the start.
Every layer is a decision with downstream consequences. We make them deliberately, document the reasoning, and design so the choices still hold as you grow.
Worldcast runs on a custom WebRTC + Kurento architecture streaming HD concerts at 0.4-0.5s latency to 10,000 simultaneous viewers.
BrainCert’s architecture spans 10 datacenters at 99.995% uptime, delivering 500M+ classroom minutes a month.
Nucleus runs an on-prem distributed WebRTC + SIP + Kurento architecture for 5,000+ businesses, 600M+ call minutes a month.
Scholarly uses a microservices architecture on Kubernetes running live classes at 2,000 concurrent students.
TransLinguist runs a mediasoup + microservices architecture in 75+ languages that won the NHS UK national framework.
ProVideoMeeting unifies browser and phone participants on a hybrid WebRTC + FreeSWITCH architecture.
Every team can sketch an architecture. The question is whether it survives contact with real load — and whether the people designing it have seen what breaks at scale. Here is the split.
Not sure the current plan holds? The free architecture review below stress-tests it.
A focused engagement that produces the topology, media-server choice, scaling plan, and a documented architecture you can build from.
We design the architecture and build it end to end, then hand over the code and docs.
We review an existing real-time architecture, find what will break at scale, and hand you a prioritized plan.
Our senior real-time architect joins your team to guide the build from the inside.
Fixed-scope starting points. An architecture design sprint is the fastest way to a sound plan; build and scale engagements follow from it.
Infra (media servers, TURN, hosting) is billed at cost. An audit-only engagement is scoped on the call.
Before you commit to an architecture, we will pressure-test the plan and catch the scaling traps.
Competitor analysis, core feature definition, monetization modeling, and a full launch blueprint — delivered within a week. Written by engineers who'll build what they plan.
An independent review of your system's technology choices, structural components, and workload fit — with a plain verdict on what's working, what's a liability, and exactly what to change to reach your goal. Delivered within a week.
A full audit of your code with every issue documented, evidenced, and located — exact file, exact line. Plus a system architecture review and a prioritized fix roadmap. Not a consultant's opinion. A case file. Delivered within a week.
A specialist review of your video or streaming product covering latency, media server architecture, WebRTC, playback reliability, real-time chat, and scalability. Every finding is specific, located, and fixable. Delivered within a week.
We are not sketching from theory. We have designed and run real-time architectures at hundreds of millions of minutes a month, across streaming, EdTech, enterprise, and telehealth.
Two decades of real-time architecture decisions, not a service line.
Worldcast at 10,000 concurrent sub-second; BrainCert across 10 datacenters at 99.995%; Nucleus at 600M+ minutes a month.
mediasoup, LiveKit, Janus, Pion, Kurento, plus CPaaS — we pick on your requirements and say why.
TURN capacity, region failover, mixing cost — the things that sink systems at scale, designed for up front.
You get the architecture diagrams and docs; your team owns the design.
Compliance patterns designed into production systems (CirrusMed, Nucleus), not bolted on.
The questions teams ask before they commit to an architecture. The same answers power this page’s FAQ schema.
What is custom WebRTC architecture?
P2P, SFU, MCU, or hybrid - how do you choose?
Which media server should we use?
How do you design WebRTC to scale to thousands?
Can you audit or fix our existing architecture?
What about TURN/STUN and connectivity at scale?
Do you design for HIPAA or SOC 2?
Do we get the architecture documented, or just code?
How is this different from just hiring WebRTC developers?
What does it cost and how long does it take?
WebRTC architecture for production systems
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See the service →Tell us the call sizes, the scale, and the constraints. We will design the topology, choose the media server, and hand you a scaling plan — in one call. Need a team to build it? See WebRTC development. Want the background first? See WebRTC architecture for production systems.
Specialist software house for video, real-time and AI products. Founded 2005. 50 in-house engineers.
