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WebRTC[02] - SDP

##SDP stands for Session Description Protocol.

SDP is information created via createOffer() and/or createAnswer(). SDP is used to provide a callee with information about caller and vice versa.

  1. describes multimedia sessions, which can contain audio, video, whiteboard, fax, modem, and other streams.
  2. Provides a general purpose, standard representation to describe various aspects of multimedia session such as media capabilities, transport addresses and related matadata in a transport manner
  3. Used for session announcement, session invitation and parameter negotiation
  4. Used in the context of Session Initiation Protocol, Real-time Transport Protocol, and Real-time Streaming Protocol applications.

To be honest, all you need to know about SDP is that this is information that a caller and a callee must exchange in order to let each other know who he or she is.

Aug 20, 2019

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