Erlang for real time applications

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I would like to inquire as to Erlang/Elixir’s viability as a real-time communications platform for video/audio & other between peers without WebRTC / Janus gate, as what they achieved with games like Call of Duty:

I understand one benefit of WebRTC is that it takes the streaming load off the server, but how would it be possible to implement a coordinated data streaming service without third party APIs with Erlang/Elixir as more than a signalling server?

Any books walk through a more comprehensive use of gen_tcp?

“Don’t trust the client” enforces a server mediator among the peers.

How? Thank you.

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Many of the cell towers in the world are running Erlang, so yes it’s viable for audio communications.

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Yes but how do they accomplish that?

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Is that statement backed by public facts? The Ericsson switch powered by Erlang seems not really relevant today. Today, majority of Ericsson equipment seems powered by C++ (according to a friend who works there in test).

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If he’s working in V&V, I bet C++ is used in some kind of test bench devices (that may or may not have GUI). Those are pretty common in embedded devices in V&V…

Anyway, I’m really interested to hear more about that (if true)…

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https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-using-erlang-and-why-mytopdogstatus.html

Nice article to read (it includes a reference to above talk from Johan Bevemyr)

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