Chrome recently added the option of adding redundancy to audio streams using the RED format as defined in RFC 2198, and Fippo wrote about the process and implementation in a previous article. You should catch-up on that post, but to summarize quickly RED works by adding redundant payloads with different timestamps in the same packet. If you lose a packet in a lossy network then chances are another successfully received packet will have the missing data resulting in better audio quality.
That was in a simplified one-to-one scenario, but audio quality issues often have the most impact on larger multi-party calls. As a follow-up to Fippo’s post, Jitsi Architect and Improving Scale and Media Quality with Cascading SFUs author Boris Grozev walks us through his design and tests for adding audio redundancy to a more complex environment with many peers routing media through a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU). ...
