modern VoIP client

[Florin Andrei]

"less than a month" according to Craig Southeren:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomemeeting-devel-list/2004-July/thread.html#00077

On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 16:20, Florin Andrei wrote:
> That's good news! What's the schedule of the first release to support
> SIP?
> 
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 07:51, Christopher Warner wrote:
> > 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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Florin Andrei

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