GNU SIP Witch
GNU SIP Witch is a free SIP server software with Peer-to-peer capabilities from the GNU Project. It is the GNU implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), which is being used for the routing of the calls.
Developer(s) | GNU Project |
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Stable release | 1.9.15
/ 13 December 2015 |
Platform | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, Windows |
Available in | C++ |
License | GPL (free software) |
Website | www |
Availability
SIP Witch is released as free software under the terms of version 3 or later of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is designed for Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and Windows and planned support for Android.[1] In the popular GNU/Linux distributions Ubuntu and Fedora it may be installed directly from the standard package sources.[2][3]
Technology
SIP Witch is written in the programming language C++ and uses the uCommon,[4] eXosip[5] and GNU oSIP[6] libraries.
Features
The software enables Voice over IP as part of a self-organising Peer-to-peer telephone network.[1] It supports features like call forwarding, call distribution, call hold, presence information and (text) messages, supports encrypted calls and also enables NAT traversal to establish the peer-to-peer connections.[7]
History
The SIP Witch is being developed since the 10th of August 2007 by David Sugar within the GNU Telephony project. The first version was 0.1.0. Version 1 was released on May 14, 2011. It is being used as a component of GNU Free Call, which is supposed to be an alternative to Skype.[1]
See also
- List of SIP software – other SIP related programs
- FreeSWITCH
Sources
- Dj Walker-Morgan (2011-05-17). "Peer-to-peer VOIP app GNU SIP Witch reaches version 1.0". Heise Media UK Ltd. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
- http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?sipwitch
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-07-20. Retrieved 2011-05-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2011-05-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip
- https://www.gnu.org/software/osip/
- Hans-Joachim Baader (2011-05-16). "GNU SIP Witch erreicht Version 1.0". Pro-Linux. Baader&Lindner GbR. Retrieved 2011-05-19.