BigBlueButton is the leading open source video conferencing system for classrooms.
Installing and maintaining BigBlueButton is challenging, expensive and resource inefficient because servers are idle most of the week. Managing recordings across multiple servers is difficult. Maintaining redundant Stun / Turn servers is a further complication and expense. Most hosting providers offer inflexible seat licenses that are expensive per hour of meeting use and need further complicated software such as 'Scalelite' in order to scale.
BBB On Demand solves all of these problems - providing you with meetings or dedicated instances at cloud scale and on demand.
Using a standard BigBlueButton library or integration (such as Moodle) your system requests a meeting from BBB On Demand.
In seconds, we create the meeting within our auto-scaling fleet of BigBlueButton servers, local to your users.
Your users join and participate in the meeting in the usual way.
Video conferencing (including BigBlueButton) makes high demands of network speed and bandwidth so using servers close to your users makes for higher quality meetings.
BBB On Demand has 15 points of presence across five continents - including within the EU under a GDPR compliant Data Processing Agreement.
We use the astonishingly fast dedicated fibre network built by Google for themselves and their customers. This is transparent to you, but means better quality videoconference for your users.
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Learn more about the advantages of processing and storing recordings in the cloud.
As an alternative to on demand meetings, you can use BBB On Demand to create BigBlueButton servers for your exclusive use.
This is done using a simple API. We publish the API specification, / Swagger definition, and have open sourced a PHP library to create, start, stop and destroy instances. These servers have persistent disks and incur only a minimal charge when stopped
Different machine sizes are available, up to 32 CPU and 128Gb Ram
After creating or starting an instance, you can manage meetings and recordings with any of the standard BBB Libraries or integrations.
Optionally, BBB On Demand can manage recordings from your dedicated instances in the same way as described above, with off machine processing, cloud storage and hosting.
