Turn a room into a webinar workflow
Expose a room as an interactive session for speakers while keeping a cleaner viewer-facing layer for the wider audience.
Realtime
Browser video conferencing and webinar rooms
Run video calls, moderated webinars, support rooms, and interactive broadcasts directly in the browser. Separate active speakers from viewers, control who can join, record important sessions, and extend the same room into a larger live or replay workflow.
Realtime
End-to-end live delivery and access control
Ingest, route, secure, and deliver live and VOD — via UI or API. Cloud on AWS or on-prem.
Workflow
Separate participants from viewers when needed
Use the same event surface for active speakers and passive viewers without forcing every attendee into the same participation mode.
Keep moderation and access under your control
Decide who joins, who only watches, and how the room is exposed instead of letting those rules live only in ad hoc meeting links.
Collaborate with in-room chat and screen sharing
Keep discussion beside the live call with in-room chat, then let an approved participant share a screen when the room needs a presentation, review, or live demonstration.
Realtime
Support internal ops and customer-facing sessions
Use the same room model for support, monitoring, webinars, internal reviews, or public-facing interactive sessions.
Let guests join from the browser
Open a controlled guest or webinar join path in the browser, without asking speakers or invited participants to install a platform-specific app.
Send the room into playback or external distribution
When the session should reach beyond the participants themselves, connect the room to viewer playback or other distribution layers.
Record sessions without changing the room logic
Preserve sessions for replay or audit without rebuilding the live room around a separate recording workflow.
Technical specification
What the product supports, and what to verify
Supported behavior sits beside a practical acceptance check. The installed Callaba interface and the real source, destination, and infrastructure profile remain authoritative.
| Capability | Supported behavior | Acceptance check |
|---|---|---|
| Let guests join from the browser | Open a controlled guest or webinar join path in the browser, without asking speakers or invited participants to install a platform-specific app. | The intended model is browser-first participation so the join flow stays lightweight for operators, speakers, and guests. |
| Separate participants from viewers when needed | Use the same event surface for active speakers and passive viewers without forcing every attendee into the same participation mode. | Yes. A video call uses mobile data or broadband while it sends and receives media. At 1 Mbps, one hour is about 0.45 GB in one direction; sending video and receiving other participants can both count toward the connection’s total. |
| Turn a room into a webinar workflow | Expose a room as an interactive session for speakers while keeping a cleaner viewer-facing layer for the wider audience. | Yes. That is often the right approach for webinars, monitoring, or any scenario where not everyone should be an active room participant. |
| Collaborate with in-room chat and screen sharing | Keep discussion beside the live call with in-room chat, then let an approved participant share a screen when the room needs a presentation, review, or live demonstration. | Plan from the bitrate rather than a fixed per-call number: 1–5 Mbps transfers about 0.45–2.25 GB in an hour in one direction. Actual use depends on resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, call length, and how many participant videos a device sends or receives. |
| Send the room into playback or external distribution | When the session should reach beyond the participants themselves, connect the room to viewer playback or other distribution layers. | Yes. That is often the right approach for webinars, monitoring, or any scenario where not everyone should be an active room participant. |
| Record sessions without changing the room logic | Preserve sessions for replay or audit without rebuilding the live room around a separate recording workflow. | Yes. Lower resolution, frame rate, or bitrate generally uses less data, while longer calls and layouts receiving several active participant videos use more. Codec choice and adaptive bitrate also change the result, so check the application’s selected quality and your network plan for an exact figure. |
Continue in the product
Set it up in Callaba. Then check the full path.
You have seen what the product does. These three guides take you into the exact controls, show what to connect next, and give you a practical check before the workflow goes live.
Workflow
End-to-end live delivery and access control
Ingest, route, secure, and deliver live and VOD — via UI or API. Cloud on AWS or on-prem.
Cloud video conferencing pricing
The pay-as-you-go cloud tariff is ideal for those who need all the advantages of the cloud, such as instant deployment of Callaba, low latency due to the global network of data centers, server reliability, data backup, scalability, managed services, and much more.
Deploy Callaba on AWSSelf-hosted unlimited video conferencing pricing
The unlimited tariff is a good fit for actively growing organizations of medium and large size that would like to have no limitations like those in the bundled tariff, while also maintaining full control over their data.
Install Callaba self-hostedAPI
Video conferencing REST APIAutomate rooms, webinars, and viewer flows with API modules
Realtime rooms become much easier to control when room creation, viewer playback, and recording are treated as separate modules. Use the API when calls or webinars need to behave like part of your own app, event stack, or operator workflow.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much data does video conferencing use?
Plan from the bitrate rather than a fixed per-call number: 1–5 Mbps transfers about 0.45–2.25 GB in an hour in one direction. Actual use depends on resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, call length, and how many participant videos a device sends or receives.
Does video call use data?
Yes. A video call uses mobile data or broadband while it sends and receives media. At 1 Mbps, one hour is about 0.45 GB in one direction; sending video and receiving other participants can both count toward the connection’s total.
Does video calling use data?
Yes. Lower resolution, frame rate, or bitrate generally uses less data, while longer calls and layouts receiving several active participant videos use more. Codec choice and adaptive bitrate also change the result, so check the application’s selected quality and your network plan for an exact figure.
Can I expose a viewer-only surface?
Yes. That is often the right approach for webinars, monitoring, or any scenario where not everyone should be an active room participant.
Do participants need to install anything?
The intended model is browser-first participation so the join flow stays lightweight for operators, speakers, and guests.
Where should I start in the docs?
Start with Video calls, then use Web players for viewer-facing surfaces and Recordings when sessions need archives or replay.
How much bandwidth does video conferencing use?
Video conferencing bandwidth is the measured audio-and-video bitrate sent by each participant plus the streams that participant receives. It changes with codec, resolution, frame rate, screen sharing, layout, and packet overhead, so plan from the actual send and receive bitrates with headroom instead of using one universal Mbps figure.
Realtime
Browser video conferencing and webinar rooms
Run video calls, moderated webinars, support rooms, and interactive broadcasts directly in the browser. Separate active speakers from viewers, control who can join, record important sessions, and extend the same room into a larger live or replay workflow.