Load Balancing Signaling Servers

Welcome! As your real-time applications grow, a single signaling server can become a bottleneck. This lesson focuses on load balancing, a key strategy to handle high volumes of concurrent connections.

We'll explore how to distribute traffic efficiently across multiple signaling servers.

Before diving into scaling, let's briefly recall the signaling server's purpose. It acts as a 'matchmaker' for WebRTC peers, facilitating the exchange of vital information:

• SDP Offers/Answers: Describing media capabilities.
• ICE Candidates: Network address information.

Without signaling, peers can't find each other to establish a direct connection.