Calculating Bandwidth Requirements for Video Conferencing
To ensure the best video conferencing experience, it is essential to understand your video conferencing bandwidth. Bandwidth represents your connection capacity. Depending on data transmission, your bandwidth is shared between outbound and inbound streams, which may significantly differ.
Below you can find inbound and outbound bandwidth requirements which guarantee the best possible video conferencing quality. However, by using TrueConf you can be sure that your stream rate always adjusts to your network conditions, as our solutions are based on Scalable Video Coding (SVC).
Video Conferencing Server
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Choose video conferencing mode to calculate your channel capacity:
Video Call
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| Bandwidth required, Kbps | Server | Client | ||
| Inbound | Outbound | Inbound | Outbound | |
| SD | 256 | 256 | 128 | 128 |
| HQ | 512 | 512 | 256 | 256 |
| ED | 1024 | 1024 | 512 | 512 |
| HD | 2048 | 2048 | 1024 | 1024 |
| FullHD | 4096 | 4096 | 2048 | 2048 |
| WQHD | 8192 | 8192 | 4096 | 4096 |
| UltraHD | 16384 | 16384 | 8192 | 8192 |
WebRTC Video Conferences
WebRTC Video Conferences allow you to set up streaming for up to 500 participants using web browsers. Please check additional bandwidth requirements if you would like to add more guests into your conference.
| Bandwidth required, Mbps | Server | Browser | ||
| Inbound | Outbound | Inbound | Outbound | |
| 1 participant | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
Notes
- We recommend having 50% extra capacity communication channel to ensure maximum performance.