With the COVID-19 situation, many individuals and businesses have had to adapt to communicating and working remotely. As a result, there has been a high demand for video conferencing and various tools for this. There are a lot of players on the market of software for video conferencing. However, there are also some discussions regarding security, privacy and data protection and as a result, people are looking for options that are privately hosted. With this, Jitsi Meet open source video conferencing tool has become more and more popular as it can be installed at the local cloud provider.
Why Jitsi?
Jitsis video conferencing tools have the following points as some of their main advantages:
- Open Source solution. Provided for free and with broad community support.
- Easy one-click installation.
- User-friendly process for arranging video and audio calls and multi-meeting rooms.
- High privacy and security due to deployment in isolated containers with encrypted traffic.
- Support for all available clients (Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android).
Here you can read a step-by-step description of how you can get Jitsi up and running with Jelastic PaaS to achieve full control over your data, have secure web hosting in local data center and avoid the need for manual installation and complex maintenance.
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