Secure communication platform Wire has overhauled its video conferencing capabilities and now allows more users to simultaneously have fully encrypted video calls.
Beginning today, Wire users will be able to video chat with up to 12 people and voice call with up to 25. While video conferencing rivals Zoom and Webex already offer end-to-end encryption on some plans, Wire’s latest move will provide that high level of security to all its users. Wire now boasts that it offers “the world’s first completely end-to-end encrypted video environment.”
As many companies enter their seventh month of employees working from home, the demand for video conferencing services has not had any let up. That has led to something of an arms race as Microsoft, Zoom and a variety of other services have in recent months announced upgrades and feature tweaks of their own.
Created in 2014 with help from one of Skype’s co-founders, Wire originally introduced video calling in March 2016. However, the high level of encryption it offered led the company to advise against video calls with more than four participants at once.
Wire CEO Morten Brøgger said in a statement that improving video capabilities had been in the works before the pandemic. But the COVID-19 outbreak accelerated efforts to increase capacity for Wire’s users.
“There was a fairly well articulated demand with a lot of our large customers that they would like to see ... video conferences and voice conferences with more people, whilst still wanting that very high level of security, where everything is end-to-end encrypted in the call,” said Brøgger. “So we were already working on that, and it may sound super simple but clearly with encryption it's a little bit mor ..
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