<p>In the not too distant future unified communications will be a feature embedded in almost every new Web application, which from a developer perspective means that most end users are going to soon view most existing applications as nothing short of being antiquated.The W3C is currently working out the details of a WebRTC specification that essentially puts support for a real-time communication engine directly in the browser.</p><p>There are already instance of WebRTC available in Firefox and Chrome browsers. But the expectation is that by having the W3C sanction WebRTC will find its way into every browser.</p><p>That's critical for developers because instead of having to develop code to take advantage of communications features in every endpoint device on the network, they will be able to more simply invoke WebRTC running in the browser.</p><p>In fact, WebRTC, which will be the sole focus of a WebRTC Conference and Expo event in Atlanta in June, is already gaining a lot of momentum in the developer community. For example, Tadiran Telecom is adding WebRTC support to Aeonix unified communications platform that runs on top of x86 servers. According to Lindsay Kinter, vice president of engineering for Tadiran Telecom, a software-driven approach to UC makes it easier and more affordable to deploy a unified communications platform that scales, while WebRTC support will make the platform accessible from any browser that support WebRTC.</p><p><a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2013/02/05/webrtc-unified-communications-comes-to-the-application/">Keep reading...</a></p>