History: Tiki Suite brainstorming archive

Realtime Communication (RTC)

Please see Jitsi. The info below is kept for historical reasons.

Real-time Communication (RTC) Webinar/Web Conferencing/Instant messaging and presence via XMPP/Jingle (Jabber)/SIP/VOIP/PBX/Desktop sharing

• https://tiki.org/Live+Support+Service (Dogfood)
• http://www.rtcquickstart.org/
• http://www.opentelecoms.org/
• https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/free-rtc/
• http://penta.debconf.org/dc13_schedule/events/1050.en.html
• http://dev.tox.im/
• Emil Ivov, FOSDEM 2012 A real Skype alternative using standards compliant FLOSS
• Emil Ivov, FOSDEM 2012 Multimedia: Jingle, the Universe, and Everything
• https://code.google.com/p/telepresence/

XMPP and SIP

• SylkServer includes IRC bridge
• http://wiki.fusionpbx.com/index.php?title=XMPP_Manager and many Features and could be added to the BigBlueButton server.
• sipXecs VOIP, XMPP Instant Messaging (IM) and presence server (based on Openfire and FreeSWITCH)
  • http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/List+of+Features
  • http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Instant+Messaging+and+Presence
  • https://www.ohloh.net/p/sipxecs
  • http://www.sipfoundry.org/about
  • unusual licensing
  • http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/LDAP+Integration
  • http://www.sipfoundry.org/sipxecs-open-source-edition
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SipX
  • http://forum.thesummitgrp.com/index.php?t=tree&th=14408&goto=52406&S=44e5c22c3419a6b2974ece95739fd42c
  • http://myitdepartment.net/blog/305
  • http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/sipX+Solution+Summary
  • https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bigbluebutton-setup/nTy414t6OUU
  • http://www.clearfoundation.com/docs/howtos/freeswitch_with_sipxecs
  • http://wiki.sipfoundry.org/display/sipXecs/Jitsi

XMPP/Jabber

Ejabberd seems the defacto choice at the moment, it features complete LDAP integration, web ui and many other modules. All this with a massive online community and some heavy backing. It tromps Prosody, which lacks LDAP and web ui, for integration and OpenFire for scalability. It also handles XMPP Jingle protocol for voice-chat support. Prosody has a very active community and developement and might someday sooner rather than later fix the lack of LDAP support.

Related: http://lanmsngr.sourceforge.net/features.php

SIP/PBX

• SIP & JS
  • https://www.ohloh.net/p/jscommunicator
  • https://www.ohloh.net/p/jssip
  • https://www.ohloh.net/p/sipml5
• https://www.ohloh.net/tags/pbx
• https://www.ohloh.net/tags/sip
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/elastix
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/kamailio/
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/yate
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/opensips
• http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Main_Page
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/mobicents/
• https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Asterisk&project_1=Freeswitch&project_2=Yate
• https://code.google.com/p/telepresence/
• https://github.com/dhruvbird/node-xmpp-bosh

Despite the fairly active core of solutions for VoIP including Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Yate and sipXecs. sipXecs is the only one of those that offers full integration with LDAP and XMPP (Jingle, presence and IM). However, it lacks flexibility at the VoIP level. It offers a distribution install (distributed through BitTorrent only) based on CentOS. The project is supported by the SIPFoundry foundation and Ezuce company, but hasn’t been very active lately. On the contrary, FreeSwitch offers an extremely active community and developpment. As shown by Baracuda Network’s Cudatel IP PBX Hardware, it is gaining popularity in the business sector. FreeSwitch also has two main Web UI satellite project: BlueBox/2600hz and FusionPBX. The former being more mature, but the latter gaining in popularity and offering an Ubuntu based distribution. FreeSwitch has one true show stopper: it doesn’t offer LDAP integration (FusionPBX 3.3. now offers LDAP integration). Some people are claiming to be working on solutions, but nothing yet has emerged. It would however be possible to create an external real time bridge to LDAP/ActiveDirectory using mod_config_xml a web service configuration API. FreeSwitch runs off most major distributions, however it is packaged through a PPA under Ubuntu. LDAP Integration seems like it would be rather popular for FreeSwitch and something that would benefit a growing community. Asterisk is not to be ignored as it has a massive community and is by far the most used in the industry. It is quite flexible and capable, but definitely has its short comings.

http://truvoipbuzz.com/2010/08/on-premise-pbx-vs-hosted-pbx-selecting-right-phone-system-tutorial/

Freeswitch GUIs (ex.: to install on top of BigBlueButton)
https://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=WikiPBX&project_1=fusionpbx&project_2=blue.box+project

cdrwhite uses Asterisk + FreePBX + tftp-Server for phones

Bringing BigBlueButton and sipX VoIP Server together
SipXecs + Bigbluebutton

https://archive.fosdem.org/2013/schedule/event/free_open_secure_communications/