How does WebRTC handle many-to-many connections?

Question

if I am in a room with other 7 users, I am wondering if WebRTC force every user to establish a connection to each one of other participants.

Obviously it would consume s

Answer 1

Yes, you would have to establish separate connections to each of your peers. In order to solve this you could use a media server like kurento.

With a media server every peer would connect to the media server, the server would then combine the video streams from your peers into one by placing them side by side and then send you the new stream. This saves peers the trouble of having to download streams from every other peer.