List of SIP software

SIP communications products

Proprietary license

• IntTalk Enterprise VoIP solutions - Softphone, SIP MCU and more...
• Brekeke PBX and Brekeke SIP Server
• IVR Technologies, Inc. Talking SIP 3.0 - An integrated application, media and real-time billing server
• Microsoft Office Live Communications Server
• Creacode NicIVR Advanced SIP IVR and application development platform
• Pactolus SIPware solutions - Carrier-grade calling card, broadband telephony, conferencing, and custom applications
• pbxnsip - SIP-based PBX for Windows and Linux
• Rostrvm Switchless - Standards based call centre architecture using SIP
• Vonexus - Microsoft-based IP Telephony Solution.
• 3Com SIP PBX - Enterprise IP Telephony applications suite using SIP
• CommuniGate Pro IP Communications Platform Carrier Class Internet Communications Platform
• Objectworld UC Server - Unified Communications for Windows
• Dial-Office - SIP-based IP-PBX for both Windows and Linux
• 3CX Phone System for Windows - SIP server

Open-source license

• Asterisk - an open source SIP/IAX PBX
• Yate - a professional open source SIP, H.323,IAX PBX and client. It works as a SIP-H.323 translator.
  • ( supported commercially by Null Team )
• sipX - The Open Source SIP PBX
  • (also available in commercially supported form from Pingtel.)

SIP servers

Open-source license

• Asterisk SIP (and IAX/MGCP/H323 and more)
• OpenSER - GPL SIP Server focused on security and scalability
• OpenSBC - Reference implementation of Session Border Controller (including

simple proxy and registrar) using the MPL licensed Open SIP Stack

• SIP Express Router (SER)- GPL SIP Server of iptel.org, focused on security and scalability
• Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine - An H.323, SIP, IAX server and client for both Windows and Linux made for Enterprise environment.
• Mobicents - The Open Source JSLEE and SIP Server
• Siproxd SIP proxy a proxy/masquerading daemon for the SIP protocol

Proprietary license

• Avaya Communication Manager SIP Enablement Services
• BEA WebLogic SIP Server
• Brekeke OnDO SIP Server, is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. It is free for personal and educational use.
• Cisco SIP Proxy Server
• CommuniGate Pro - universal communication server - SIP Proxy/Registrar, NAT Traversal/SBC, IVR, Conference, IM/Presence via SIMPLE/XMPP, E-Mail and GroupWare.
• Creacode NicSC SIP Session Border Controller High performance SIP Call Controller, Registrar and NAT Traversal solution.
• Eyeball SIP Proxy Server
• IVR Technologies, Inc. Talking SIP 3.0 - An integrated application, media and real-time billing server
• Nortel SIP Multimedia Communication Server 5200
• Pactolus RapidFLEX Service Delivery Platform - Highly scalable SIP application server, media server, and service creation environment
• Paradial RealSIP Server
• Paradial RealTunnel SIP Proxy Server
• Pingtel Call Manager (based on SIP Foundry open source)
• Radvision SIP Server Platform
• Ubiquity SIP Application Server
• 3Com VCX IP Telephony Module: Back-to-Back User Agent SIP PBX
• Multimedia communication Engine (M2CE) by Oracle
• Interactive Intelligence SIP Proxy, specialising in Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance

SIP-capable firewalls

• Intertex SIP Transparent Routers, Firewalls and ADSL modems - For broadband deployments and the SOHO market
• Ingate SIP Transparent Enterprise Firewalls and SIParators - Enabling global SIP communication on the enterprise LAN
• Snapgear firewalls include siproxd SIP proxy server

SIP clients

Free software

• Ekiga, formerly known as GnomeMeeting, GPL
• KCall, using Qt libraries
• KPhone, using Qt libraries, GPL
• Linphone, with a core/UI separation, the GUI is using GTK+ libraries
• Minisip, with a core/UI separation and encryption, alpha version for Nokia 770
• SFLPhone, a multi-protocol multi-platform SIP and IAX softphone.
• Twinkle, using Qt libraries
• Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine - An H.323, SIP, IAX server and client for both Windows and GNU/Linux, license GPL with an embedded browser.
• OpenWengo - A SIP based softphone and IM client using the Qt libraries, available under the GPL
• PhoneGaim, based on Gaim.
• sipX, for Windows and Linux.
• TudoMais, Java/Flash-based for Windows.
• Zap is cross platform, based on XULRunner, licensed under the MPL
• SIP Communicator, the Java VoIP and Instant Messaging client, runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX
• XMeeting is Mac OS X SIP/H323 client, based on OpenH323 libraries, licensed under the MPL

Proprietary freeware

• RadiusCat for Windows, SIP RADIUS AAA Billing Software http://www.svksoftware.com/
• CounterPath X-Lite for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux is available in a light version
• The Cornfed SIP User Agent for Linux by Cornfed Systems is available with Command-Line Interface (CLI) and Gnome GUI clients.
• Gizmo Project for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, primarily used for the SIPphone network
• SJPhone runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and PocketPC.
• Tivi runs on Windows
• NCH Swift Sound Express Talk, GSM, uLaw, ALaw and PCM codecs (web)
• 3CX Phone for Windows - a free SIP client for Windows.
• Mindspring, for Windows. Voice, chatting, and file-sharing capabilities.
• Phoner for Windows, G.711, iLBC, G.726, GSM and Speex codecs
• PhonerLite for Windows, G.711, iLBC, G.726, GSM and Speex codecs

Test

Proprietary software

• AGEphone runs on Windows, PocketPC and Windows Mobile.
• Articulation runs on Palm OS 5 handhelds including Clie and Treo.
• is-phone integrated softphone, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) based, PBX independent
• Movial PC, Symbian and Windows CE Clients
• Pingtel, Java-based for Windows.
• VeriCall Edge for voice/video over IP calling runs on embedded Linux.
• Virbiage Cubix for Windows, Inter-Asterisk eXchange Protocol, G.711, iLBC, G.729, GSM and Speex codecs
• vPhone runs on Windows.
• CounterPath X-Pro for Windows

SIP test tools

Proprietary license

• ProLab: Commercial SIP and VoIP testing tool
• SFTF: SIP Forum User Agent Test Framework (open source; written by the SIP Forum).
• bandwidth VoIP Test: Bandwidth.com offer a tool to test the SIP ports on your network
• Sipient Systems - SIPFlow: SIPFlow captures SIP traffic and draws callflows (ladder diagrams) for each transaction.
• Codenomicon SIP Test Tool: Commercial SIP robustness and security test tool (next generation PROTOS SIP test tool [see open source test tools])
• Mu Security: Commercial SIP-VoIP, RTSP-IPTV Triple Play security analysis & testing platform (automate existing 3rd party testing and scripts like Nessus and PROTOS [see SIPit 2006 http://www.sipit.net/])

Open-source license

• SIPp: An Open Source SIP test tool (functional and performance tests).
• Sipsak: sipsak is a command line tool which can send simple requests to a SIP server (Open Source).
• PROTOS c07-SIP test suite: PROTOS c07-SIP robustness and security test suite (initial results of running the test suite are documented in US/CERT advisory CA-2003-06).
• pjsip-perf: An Open Source SIP transaction/call performance measurement tool.
• Asteroid: Asteroid is a SIP Denial of Service testing tool. See MITRE CVE-2006-5444 and CVE-2006-5445

SIP protocol stacks

Proprietary license

• The Cornfed SIP User Agent System Developer's Kit (SDK) for Linux by Cornfed Systems is available for integrating fully integrated softphones into OEM product designs.
• Radvision Ltd. popular SIP protocol stack vendor
• Ulticom Signalware® SIP is a carrier-grade SIP stack designed for operator core networks
• SIP .NET: SIP client API for .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework
• ageet Corporation offers the small and fast microSIP stack
• HelloSoft Ltd. Voip protocl for wlan, cellular & gateway, including SIP Stack, Voice Media Processing, Jitter Buffering, Call Control Manager.
• VeriCall Edge integrates its own SIP stack with all of the required media processing, packet handling and call control functionality needed to develop voice/video over IP end-user devices.

Open-source license

• ReSIProcate: Free Software SIP stack
• Sofia-SIP is a Free Software SIP user agent library licensed under the LGPL. It can be utilized conditionally in the IMS network.
• GNU OSIP: Free Software SIP Stack
• RNID SIP stack: Licenced under a BSD-based license.
• JAIN-SIP JAVA SIP Stack: Public domain implementation of RFC 3261 and extensions. Reference Implementation for JSR 32 javax.sip package.
• PJSIP: Open Source SIP stack in C. Tiny footprint, ultra portable, and very fast.
• Open SIP Stack: Free Software Open source C++ SIP stack released under MPL 1.0 license. Designed for scalability and reliability.
• oSIP Free Software Open source C SIP stack released under LGPL license. Small footprint. Support Linux/Win32/VxWorks. Designed for a basic library in order to develop SIP client & gateway.
• Yass stands for Yet Another SIP stack and is the Yate sip stack written in C++. It can be used under Windows or Linux in a single or multithread environment for state-full software like clients, servers and proxies. It contains a transaction engine and of course a sip not very efficient but safe parser.

See also

• SIP
• Comparison of VoIP software
• TelSIP

External links

• Open Source SIP and Media Links
• http://dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3115: Nice article about VOIP and PocketPC.

• Soft Phones: A thorough list of many available soft phones; also SIP soft phones as well as Inter-Asterisk eXchange and h.323 protocol soft phones