SAN FRANCISCO, CA — (Marketwired) — 12/03/14 — TokBox, a Telefónica company, has won the Best In Show Award for the second year running at the WebRTC Conference and Expo V, the leading global WebRTC event.
The award recognizes the industry contribution of the OpenTok Platform, which allows developers and enterprise to add live video, voice and messaging using WebRTC into a browser or mobile application. In particular, it is recognition of the real world application of WebRTC using the OpenTok Platform as demonstrated by various customer case studies as well as a live demo of OpenTok partner ustyme by CEO and Founder Joe Salesky. ustyme is a breakthrough app that allows users to read books and play games while interacting via real-time video, all within the browser or mobile app.
Scott Lomond, TokBox CEO commented: “This award is great recognition that the industry values the fact OpenTok is bringing more and more companies into the WebRTC community with increasingly sophisticated and advanced applications. The support and recognition of the industry has made the TokBox team even more determined in our mission to provide the best platform for enterprise-grade WebRTC solutions; helping revolutionize the way businesses and consumers communicate by enabling true communications within and beyond the browser.”
“Our partner ustyme is a great example of a company leveraging WebRTC in the real world. Its founder Joe Salesky gave a terrific demonstration of the capability of WebRTC and OpenTok to deliver deeply engaging experiences across any platform, with a simple and powerful user experience,” Mr Lomond said.
TokBox develops and operates the OpenTok Platform, making it fast and easy to add live video, voice and messaging communications into online and mobile websites, apps and services. The scalable, customizable platform gives users the freedom to develop any video, voice and messaging interaction, from one-to-one chats to large-scale broadcasts.
OpenTok has been recognized as the leading WebRTC platform for enterprise grade mobile and web applications. It enables rapid development and comprehensive feature support for commercial desktop and mobile WebRTC applications.
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TokBox, a Telefónica company, develops and operates the OpenTok Platform, making it fast and easy to add live video and voice communications into online and mobile websites, apps and services. The scalable, customizable platform gives users the creative freedom to develop any video and voice interaction, from one-to-one chats to large-scale broadcasts. The first platform to incorporate support for WebRTC, OpenTok caters to enterprises, entrepreneurs and developers with powerful APIs and a global cloud infrastructure. OpenTok has been used to add video communications to more than 80,000 services by companies including Major League Baseball, Valspar, Bridgestone Golf, Diet Coke, Ford, Doritos, and Double Robotics.
TokBox is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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