Thank you very much for this text, I wrote some notes below the section i find to be incomplete/incorrect.
On 3/4/06, Sebastian Heine <
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Well,most of the times it does not uses the HTTP tunnel. Anyway, i guess going that deep in technical details is not useful for the reader.
The amount charged depends on the SIP service you use.
It's not the case yet, AFAIK. However, it is something being worked on, so it will probably come shortly.
I made a quick translation of the german article:
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.
Well,most of the times it does not uses the HTTP tunnel. Anyway, i guess going that deep in technical details is not useful for the reader.
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.
The amount charged depends on the SIP service you use.
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.
It's not the case yet, AFAIK. However, it is something being worked on, so it will probably come shortly.
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.
We could also mentions some very useful libraries developed by OpenWengo, like PhApi that allows you to add VoIP functionalities to any application very easily.
Thank you very much for this translation!
Regards,
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Julien Gilli
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