On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 09:05:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
For voice conferences with large amount of participants (20+)
usually stuff like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble is used. It
requires some special approach - for example, it is possible to
setup SIP voice conference but because of SIP architecture it
simply won't scale well for large amount of participants. And
XMPPP/Jingle support for conferences is still
experimental/work-in-progress.
For video conferences I am not aware of any free solution with
better capability than Google Hangouts. It is quite a
challenging task actually.
As a side note, SIP is a signaling protocol. It isn't sufficient
itself to do this kind of stuff and can also be used to do
something completely differently. It is only useful to connect
stream of data.
Nothing in SIP itself make it inadequate here, but the usual
toolchain that contains SIP is.
