sipconf - SIP Audio Conference Server
sipconf [-f conferencefile] [-v]
Binary distribution is available now. The code runs on Solaris, with other Unix platforms available upon request.
sipconf is an SIP based audio conference bridge.
- SIP for signaling and RTP for media.
- Can support multiple simultaneous conferences.
- Audio mixing is done. Participants do not get their own audio.
- Playout delay algorithm is implemented to create a synchronised audio stream.
- multi-threaded;
- Currently available for Solaris. Most of the components have been ported to Linux, FreeBSD and WinNT.
- Works with sipc and ephone.
- Conference setup from web.
- Modular design.
- Currently supports G.711 A law, Mu Law, G.721 and DVI ADPCM audio codecs. Easy integration of other codecs is possible.
- -f conferencefile
- A text file which is used for maintaining list of conference. Default is conflist.txt in the currect directory.
- -v
- Makes the server print out debugging information to stdout.
SIPand RTP
Kundan Singh and Gautam Nair at Columbia University, Department of Computer Science
sipconf contains RTP code from Bell Laboratories, Columbia University and University of Massachusetts, copyright (c) 1998 Lucent Technologies; all rights reserved.
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