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| WengoPhone | |
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 running on Microsoft WindowsXP |
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| Developed by | OpenWengo developers |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Instant messenger Softphone |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www.openwengo.org |
WengoPhone is free software and is a VoIP service developed by the OpenWengo community under the GNU GPL license. It allows users to speak at no cost from one's computer to other users of SIP compliant VoIP software. It also allows users to call landlines, cellphones, send SMS and to do video calls. None of these functionalities are tied to a particular SIP provider and can be used with any provider available on the market unlike other proprietary solutions such as Skype.
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[edit] History
WengoPhone's development started on September 2004. The first published version was released as 0.949. Classic has gone through a number of different releases, up to 0.99 RC8.
WengoPhone NG's development started at the end of the year 2005. It's first release is planned for the end of March 2006.
In between, a WengoPhone Firefox extension has been published, which is available on GNU/Linux, MacOS X and Win32.
[edit] Calls
PC to PC calls are HiFi quality and use several codecs such as ILBC, AMR-WB, PCMA, PCMU, AMR and GSM. It is possible to start a conversation with other users of the same software or any other software that is SIP compliant such as Gizmo. WengoPhone also allows users to do video calls using ffmpeg.
Concerning calls to landlines, the default server configuration is the one from Wengo which is the primary sponsor of the OpenWengo project. It is however possible to use other servers[1] such as the one from VoIPBuster. This provides users an economic adventage as they can chose the SIP provider according to how much they charge per minute and not according to the software they use.
[edit] Protocol
The protocol being used is standard SIP.
[edit] The user interface
The GUI is very similar to the one of other VoIP softphones such as Gizmo or Skype. From the main GUI, one can access through tabs the contact list, the list of calls but also the user SIP account. Technically it is based on Qt/C++.
[edit] Particularities
Particularities of the WengoPhone are:
- SIP compliance
- provider agnostic
- allows users to send SMS to France
- NAT transversal
- Crossplatform
- Audio smileys
[edit] Limitations
The main critics of the WengoPhone are:
- it uses SIP SIMPLE as its protocol for text messaging which is not very used on the market by other softphones which prefers the Jabber XMPP.
- no Mac version
- GUI dependance on Qt
- no three or more way conference
- sends SMS to France only
[edit] Future
The new version of WengoPhone labeled NG is to fix all these limitations. The NG version will be GUI agnostic and support other protocols for text messaging. It will also offers an API for developers to build application on top of it. It should be available by mid 2006.
[edit] Sebastian's version :)
WengoPhone Classic is a free available SIP compliant VoIP-Client, which permits free calling from PC to PC and to SIP-Phones as well as the chargeable calling to landlines and cell phones (Call-Out). WengoPhone Classic is programmed and published by OpenWengo, a community of Free (as in speech) Software enthusiast. The goal of the OpenWengo community is to provide an enjoyable and friendly, yet productive, hub for Free software development related to VoIP technologies.
Characteristics The software functions, like some other softphones (a software for telephoning running on a pc), behind the most firewalls and NAT-Routers without any problems, as it uses the TCP-Port 80 for communication which is normally being used for surfing the world wide web and therefore it is open in most cases. WengoPhone Classic is Free Software published under the GNU GPL. WengoPhone Classic uses, compared to Skype, the open and compliant VoIP protocol SIP. The main advantage of that is: You can call every phone which supports the SIP standard without charge. Thereby that could be IP-Phones, softphones on computers but also normal phones which are connected to the internet through an adapter. The call history and contact lists are stored on the Wengo servers. Beyond of pure telephoning with WengoPhone Classic you can make video calls (up to your bandwidth in full view), chat with your friends and send SMS messages.
Development Functions like voicemail, call deflection, conference call (for both audio and video), PIM-Synchronisation, data transfer and more are in development. Another goal is platform independence, so that versions for MacOS X, FreeBSD and Pocket PC become possible.
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