On Wednesday 06 October 2010 09:28:17 Gourav Shah wrote: > > There are several. > > slfphone > > Ekiga > > gstreamer > > > > I use Ekiga a lot. We had written some for customising lots of > > things in Ekiga. Rather than skype, Imo Ekiga would be a better > > bet. > > Ekiga is great. I may also suggest Qutecom, formerly known as > wengophone ( http://www.qutecom.org/), a easy to use and great > looking softphone. > > However, the objective of our appliance project is not to provide a > SIP softphone for a desktop. Objective is to have a appliance to > which, one could connect their regular phone instrument using a > voip adapter such as Linksys PAP2T > (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10029/), make and receive > calls from anywhere in the world. Think of it as a affordable > alternative to Vonage like VoIP solutions which are very expensive > and have vendor lock ins.
Connecting a voip network to a phone network is prohibited by law. L&T paid a whooping Rs.350 Cr. as fines. So be careful with whatever it is you are planning. > > Typical use case would be: Folks who have their > son/daughter's/relatives abroad, need high volume calling, and do > not want to start their desktop and use some app to make and > receive calls. > They could just pick up their landline like > instrument, dial a number which lands either on one's skype > application on computer/cellphone/landline. > Skype provides skypein > number and skype out credits which makes it capable of receiving > and making calls to landlines/cell phones, and provides very > affordable calling plans than subscribing to a SIP provider's > plans. Similarly, google has made calling US numbers very > affordable with their google voice/gtalk integration after > acquiring grand central project. Thats the reason for choosing > skype. If there is a alternate libre solution aailable, I would be > more than glad to use it as it would save lot of complexities > integrating skype. All of the voip providers pay fat licencing fees to the DOT. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
