Big blue button vs jitsi free#
Jitsi also runs a free service, which is said to be good enough even for productive use for small groups.
Big blue button vs jitsi software#
BBB is broadly similar to video conferencing software like Zoom or Jitsi: it was. Of course there is a Moodle plug-in for Jitsi too. Most virtual meetings will be conducted via BigBlueButton (henceforth BBB).
But both packages are highly configurable, so comparing them on their default settings makes no sense. Jitsi Meet, an another FOSS video conferencing package, is said to have a smaller footprint on CPU performance and runs well on VPS but demands more on the network bandwidth - at least in its default configuration. Virtualized network interfaces have certain latencies which break that.Īll that said, BBB is not without competition in the FOSS arena. Live audio and video demands a near real-time networking performance. There is a separate reason, apart from the CPU and traffic load, why it is highly advised to run BBB on a dedicated server. What is the rent of a server compared to the wage of the system administrator, not to mention the lost trust caused by disruptions? If you have the knowledge still you can run both on the same server, I believe, but not worth the trouble IMO. A second reason is that a full-blown BBB server also needs to serve HTTP(S) thereby collide with Moodle. That is one reason against running both Moodle and BBB on one server. And there is the other half, the heavy network traffic video transmission requires. FOSS in is in fact free-market system in its core.)Ĭoming to the technical aspects, people underestimate the resources needed for video conferencing. (On a side-note, FOSS is far away from communism as its opponents say. According to the philosophy of FOSS, they don't claim monopoly over the software, which means they compete with independent entities who provide BBB. is a service company providing e-learning solutions such as BigBlueButton virtual classroom platform, self-hosted Canvas learning management system, Jitsi. Blindside Networks, the company behind BBB, hosts BBB servers for their income. Unlike the big video conferencing providers who provides "free" service in exchange of your privacy, ethical people don't sell you. This free service is more for testing, not for productive use. The plug-in comes preconfigured to connect to a BBB server run by its developers. The plug-in BigBlueButtonBN is just for connecting the two services. BigBlueButton (BBB) is Free and Open Source (FOSS) video conferencing software package which is separate from Moodle.
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