Yandex.Telemost

2024: Increase in the number of participants in meetings by 12 times

Yandex 360 restarted Telemost, a video meeting and video conferencing service. The video quality has become even better, new features have appeared, and the number of meeting participants has grown more than 10 times. This became possible thanks to the transition from an external open source solution to its own platform developed by the Yandex 360  and Yandex Infrastructure teams. Yandex announced this on August 7, 2024.

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The VKS platform market is growing aggressively and shows positive audience growth year-on-year. As of August 2024, more than 100 thousand video meetings are already held in Telemost every day. Previously, in the service, we used an external open source solution, which did not allow making large-scale changes to the Telemost code at a sufficient speed. The transition to its own platform made it possible to solve this problem and, as a result, implement new product opportunities for users, "said Alexey Petrochenko, technical director of Yandex 360.

We have developed our own WebRTC platform Goloom so that Yandex has a single stack of technologies for working with realtime video. All the advantages of the platform - for example, a more stable connection between devices and a modern set of video codecs - after testing will appear in other internal and external Yandex services. The company's services will be able to adapt Goloom to their tasks, while reducing the cost of their own development and maintaining the high quality of technologies at the level of all Yandex, "said Igor Sheko, leading developer of Yandex Infrastructure interfaces.

 The possibility of shelling the screen in ultra-high resolution 4K has appeared. Participants of the meetings will be able to demonstrate presentations, reports and other materials with the highest possible clarity. In addition, the service now has an indication of speaking participants and you can see it in parallel with viewing the speaker's screen. The quality of noise cancellation has also improved - extraneous sounds will not interfere with hearing what is said.

One of the most important updates is an increase in the number of participants in meetings by 12 times. Previously, you could invite up to 40 people to a meeting, now this limit has grown to 100, 300 and 500 speaking participants. The opportunity is available for users of the Teleconference in Yandex 360 tariffs for business. This is especially important for the B2B segment: in large businesses  , hundreds of employees can take part in online meetings. In September 2024, it will be possible to hold meetings of up to 1000 people in Telemost. Live broadcasts can still be broadcast to a wide audience - up to 10 thousand people.

The teleconference already combines all the most necessary functions for organizing high-quality video meetings: chat for meeting participants, the ability for administrators to control the cameras and microphones of interlocutors, moderation, the ability to record meetings and save a file, integration with the calendar and others. Yandex 360 plans to have more flexible meeting settings (waiting rooms, new functions for organizers and co-organizers), the ability to connect to meetings via SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) and others.

2023: Opportunity to hold meetings for 1000 participants

Yandex 360 will translate the video meeting service Telemost to a new technology platform. This will allow faster implementation of new opportunities for users and increase the efficiency of the service. Key features will be available in mid-2024. Yandex announced this on September 27, 2023.

One of the solutions that will appear in the updated Teleconference is the increase in the number of participants meetings more than 20 times from the current 40 to 1000. This is especially important for B2B- segment where online big business meetings can attract hundreds of participants.

Sharing content during group meetings will also reach a new level - it will be possible to sharp the screen in ultra-high resolution 4K. Meeting participants will be able to showcase presentations, reports, projects and other materials in Maximum definition.

As of September 2023, Teleconference technologies are based on an external open source solution. Already with mid-2024, the service will run on its own platform developed by Yandex 360 and Yandex Cloud team.

{{quote 'The number of users using the service for meetings and broadcasts is growing multiple over several years. Only for the incomplete 2023 day audience The teleconference has grown almost 3 times, "said Yandex CEO 360 Vladimir Rusinov. "' - In our case, the use of an external open source solution is not allows you to make large-scale changes to the code and implement everything you plan. Transition Three basic limitations in product development will be removed on its own platform: the quality of the picture, meetings and the number of participants in the meetings. The changes will allow us to step far forward in the development of the Teleconference, focus resources within the team, and, as a consequence, realize new product opportunities for users.}}

Restarting the Teleconference will improve the current capabilities of the service: to increase stability and quality of broadcasts to a wide audience of up to 10 thousand people, noise cancellation quality and other basic functions that are already in the product and are important for comfortable use of the service.

2020: Yandex.Telemost launch

On June 15, 2020, Yandex announced the launch of a video meeting service called Yandex.Telemost. The service will allow people to quickly assemble a remote meeting or chat with friends online. The conversation time is not limited, but you can create an appointment and invite participants in just a couple of seconds - the invitation link is automatically copied to the clipboard for convenience.

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In order to start a meeting or join it, you do not need to install a separate application: the service works Yandex.Browser in and, Chrome as well as in and. applications Yandex.Disk Yandex.Mail Gradually, the Teleconference will integrated be in other Yandex products and will work in others. browsers

The invitation link to the meeting can be opened in the browser, mobile and desktop applications of Yandex.Disk and in Yandex.Mail applications for iOS and Android. In the first version of the service, all the necessary functions are already available, and in the future users will receive additional features.