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You'll need a TURN server to relay calls and provide signalling capabilities, which is needed most of the time. Here's Synapse docs on it, and I'll probably use coturn:
https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/turn-howto.html
There's also this new technology called Element Call, which uses a diffent tool called LiveKit. You should check it out too
https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/README.md