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Glossary

Terms used in our documentation

Room​

Collection of peers that can send and receive video/audio to and from other peers

Peer​

User that is connected to a room. Each peer has some associated metadata and tracks.

Track​

Single stream of video or audio of a peer. It could be a camera view, shared screen or microphone audio. Each peer can
stream multiple tracks.

Management Token​

Secret token that should be stored on your backend. It allows to create rooms and add peers.

Peer Token​

Token that your backend should pass to end clients to allow access to a specific room.

Fishjam URL​

URL to your Fishjam instance. It is used by your backend server to add peers to rooms (and create rooms).
It is also used by end client apps to join rooms.

Room Manager​

Our test app available only on Sandbox environment. It allows to test Fishjam without need to add create rooms functionality on your backend.