[Psi-devel] VOIP: IAX versus SIP

[Norman Rasmussen]

An easy to use up-and-coming SIP-compatable client would be Gizmo
(www.gizmoproject.com)

On 17/08/05, lilliput <psi at saycure.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
>  just to give my point of view of both side ( everybody hope an integration
> asap in a jabber client ;) )
> 
> Like most of people, I used skype, and tested some sip phone. But like you
> could imagine I never been stopped by 2-3 hours of testing to get the right
> configuration working. SIP is really awfull for that. firewall no firewall
> proxy and 3 to 4 other parameters that make it really hard for a general
> user. The solution for companies that offer a sip solution offer most of the
> times a pre-configured client. I recently tested a voip service that had IAX
> server. So I tested iaxcomm to test this service and surprise no need to deal
> with extra parameters IAX.server user password is enough.
> 
> So what was my point of this longandboringmail ? Maybe a temporary solution to
> deal with voip and jabber is to integrate in the vcard a list of external
> service like skype:username sip:user at server.dom iax:user at server.dom  (...)
> This integration is not really complicated, and some plugins later could
> filter the message recieved or send to directly create a link to the external
> software.
> 
> 
> I roundly know that this idea would be launch in the sea..
> 
> NB; about iaxcomm, it's an opensource/multiplateform client.
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