modern VoIP client

[Christopher Warner]

GnomeMeeting will be supporting SIP, including several new features.

-Christopher Warner
#irc.gnome.org, #gnomemeeting.

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 07:57, Florin Andrei wrote:

> The VoIP client traditionally included with Fedora is GnomeMeeting. It's
> a fine application and it works pretty well. However, it is based on
> H.323, which is the old VoIP protocol that's being less used these days.
> 
> There's a trend nowadays to start new VoIP deployments using SIP instead
> of H.323, or even, in some cases, migrating existing implementations to
> SIP.
> Modern VoIP PBX implementations, proprietary or open source, tend to
> support SIP out of the box, with H.323 often as an afterthought. See
> Asterix.
> 
> It is probably worth keeping GnomeMeeting around, since it proved itself
> as a reliable tool, but perhaps it is time to keep up with the evolution
> of the technology and offer a SIP client with Fedora. I suggest
> Linphone:
> 
> http://www.linphone.org/?lang=us&rubrique=1
> 
> Despite what the homepage makes you believe, it seems to also support
> video, not just audio (but i didn't verify that myself):
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/linphone-users/2003-12/msg00030.html
> http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk%20video
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei
> 
> http://florin.myip.org/
> 
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