please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . february 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message tokbox inc type private headquarters san francisco california california founder s serge faguet ron hose key people scott lomond ceo badri rajaseker cto melih onvural director of product management michael kelleher director of business analytics ian small chairman of the board owner telef nica digital a subsidiary of telef nica website www.tokbox.com alexa rank 58 996 april 2014 update 1 type of site video conferencing tokbox is a paas platform as a service company that provides hosted infrastructure apis and tools required to deliver enterprise grade webrtc capabilities . it does so primarily through its proprietary opentok video platform for commercial application . 2 tokbox was founded by entrepreneurs serge faguet and ron hose and was backed by sequoia capital bain capital dag ventures and youniversity ventures . as of november 2010 tokbox had raised 26 million in series a and b and c funding . 2 headquartered in the soma south of market district in san francisco ca . tokbox was acquired by telef nica digital a subsidiary of telef nica in october 2012 . 3 as of december 2013 tokbox has 55 employees spread over 7 offices worldwide . 2 contents 1 platform 1.1 opentok 2 features 2.1 opentok media router 2.2 recording and archiving 2.3 signaling api 2.4 turn over tcp 3 developer resources 3.1 server sdks 3.2 client libraries 4 developer outreach 5 business model 6 awards 7 history 7.1 2007 7.2 2008 7.3 2009 7.4 2010 7.5 2011 8 controversy 9 references 10 external links platform edit opentok edit the opentok platform provides apis a global cloud infrastructure and pre configured solutions to enterprises entrepreneurs and developers.originally launched as adobe flash based platform in 2010 opentok became the first real time communications platform to incorporate support for webrtc in 2012 . in mid 2013 tokbox launched mantis a cloud based infrastructure enabling multi party conversations on the opentok platform . 4 developers use the opentok platform to deploy webrtc applications with 10x fewer lines of code than required through webrtc off the shelf . opentok also supports multi party calling calls between browsers and ios or android devices call archiving and playback secure enterprise firewalls traversal and more . 5 as of december 2013 the opentok platform has more than 80 000 users who use it to power video communications from one to one chats to large scale broadcasts . 6 features edit opentok media router edit the opentok media router is a proprietary software component built by tokbox in the opentok webrtc infrastructure . the opentok media router is responsible for routing scaling and shaping webrtc traffic via intelligent quality controls which consists of a family of quality enhancements including audio fallback and dynamic frame rate controls . audio only fallback opentok shapes traffic in real time by dynamically falls back to audio only for streams with lower bandwidth optimizing the experience for each participant in a multi point conversation . 7 dynamic frame rate control this allows developers to allocate lower frame rates to video streams in real time based on application logic . developers can decide where they want to allocate constrained bandwidth resources to optimize user experience . 8 recording and archiving edit recording and archiving this enables developers to build applications that record and store opentok video sessions in the cloud save the conversation into a single h. 264 aac mp4 file and download or access the stream through the player of their choice . 8 signaling api edit application level signaling for the webrtc implementation of opentok across both web and ios platforms . using the signaling api developers can build text chat send game moves coordinate moving audience members on and off stage broadcast your entire session target a message at a specific connection and much more turn over tcp edit turn over tcp this allows webrtc applications to run in environments previously restricted by corporate firewalls . 8 developer resources edit server sdks edit server sdks opentok s server sdks wrap the opentok rest api and let developers securely generate tokens for their opentok applications . officially supported libraries include java and php . community supported and created libraries include python ruby on rails . net node.js perl golang . 9 client libraries edit client libraries opentok s webrtc client libraries enable video communications on a client platform . officially supported libraries include javascript ios and android . community supported and created libraries include phonegap and titanium . 10 developer outreach edit tokbox has a long history of active engagement with the developer community . it has sponsored numerous hackathons since 2010 such as techcrunch disrupt hackathon 11 api hack day 12 and music hack day 13 pennapps one of the largest of such events takes place on university of pennsylvania campus every semester . over a thousand students from around the world competed in the september 2013 edition of pennapps . four sophomore students from carnegie mellon university with no prior hackathon experience built classity to showcase real time lectures on the web and won the best use of tokbox api award . 14 business model edit tokbox announced its current pricing structure in august 2013 to be effective oct 1st 2013 . it is a pay as you go model where users pay a 50 monthly fee after the free trial period that covers the first 10k minutes . additional minutes are charged on a sliding scale with tiers at 90k 400k 1 million 3.5 million . tokbox offers customized pricing for enterprises and businesses who use 5 million minutes per month . 15 in addition to usage fees tokbox also offers professional services and consulting starting at 200 hour . weekly and monthly bundles are also available . awards edit best in show award in november 2013 at the webrtc conferences & expo in santa clara ca. 16 best webrtc tool june 2013 webrtc conferences & expo atlanta ga. 17 history edit 2007 edit august series a funding from sequoia capital citation needed october launched www.tokbox.com citation needed november launched multi party chat and partnership with meebo citation needed 2008 edit april tokbox version 2 launched citation needed july series b funding from bain capital ventures and sequoia capital citation needed september launched the tokbox platform api citation needed 2009 edit added document collaboration tool etherpad now owned by google citation needed 2010 edit january rolled out its first set of paid features 9.99 per month . citation needed november announced the opentok api citation needed 2011 edit february tokbox announced that as of april 5 2011 they will be discontinuing the tokbox video chat and video conferencing service to focus solely on their api opentok . 18 controversy edit tokbox was the subject of controversy when 50 % of their engineering staff was fired in july 2009 . this happened around the time tokbox changed ceos . the vp of marketing is stated as saying the firings were part of the ceos new restructuring plan . none of the original founders are currently with tokbox . 19 references edit tokbox.com site info . alexa internet . retrieved 2014 04 01 . a b c http www.crunchbase.com company tokbox http techcrunch.com 2012 10 25 telefonica buys video chat platform tokbox an airtime for the rest of us http bloggeek.me tokbox webrtc interview http www.webrtcworld.com conference west 13 sponsors.aspx https www.facebook.com tokbox info http www.marketwired.com press release opentok wins best webrtc tool award at webrtc conference expo 1807051.htm a b c http planetwebrtc.com 2013 11 22 tokbox wins best in show award at webrtc conference expo http tokbox.com opentok libraries server http tokbox.com opentok libraries client http techcrunch.com 2013 04 27 disrupt ny 2013 hackathon team wants to build a webrtc based pandora for exercise http www.tokbox.com blog api hack day chicago 2 http sf.musichackday.org 2013 index.php page main page http 2013f . pennapps.com prizes.html http www.tokbox.com blog announcing new pricing for the opentok platform http www.marketwired.com press release tokbox wins best in show award at webrtc conference expo 1855558.htm http www.webrtcworld.com topics webrtc world articles 344047 tokbox receives best webrtc tool award opentok.htm http www.tokbox.com blog tokbox speaks breaking up is hard to do http techcrunch.com 2009 07 09 tokbox fires 50 of engineering team all founders gone external links edit tokbox home page retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tokbox & oldid 727451791 categories teleconferencingios sdkwebrtcinstant messagingonline chatwindows instant messaging clientsos x instant messaging clientsaim 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