SIPfoundry
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SIPfoundry is a not-for-profit open source community, whose mission is to promote and advance Session Initiation Protocol
(SIP) - related open source projects. Through SIPfoundry, the users, developers, and distributors of SIP-based products can collectively support each other and accelerate the growth and adoption of SIP.
Founded in March 2004, SIPfoundry established close ties with the SIP Forum
as well as the IETF. SIPfoundry actively promotes the standardization of SIP and interoperability of SIP products and solution across the industry through the SIP Forum Test Framework (SFTF).
SIPfoundry is also the place where the development of sipX
, an open source SIP PBX for Linux
, takes place. This project aims at commoditizing PBXs by offering a fully featured, standards-compliant, and easy-to-use SIP IP PBX for free as an open source solution. SIPfoundry would like SIP to become part of the Internet the same way HTTP, SMTP, and XML became ubiquitous and drove rapid adoption of new services across the Internet.
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol is an IETF-defined signaling protocol widely used for controlling communication sessions such as voice and video calls over Internet Protocol . The protocol can be used for creating, modifying and terminating two-party or multiparty sessions...
(SIP) - related open source projects. Through SIPfoundry, the users, developers, and distributors of SIP-based products can collectively support each other and accelerate the growth and adoption of SIP.
Founded in March 2004, SIPfoundry established close ties with the SIP Forum
SIP Forum
The SIP Forum is a non-profit organization devoted to advancing the adoption of the Session Initiation Protocol , a signaling protocol for use in initiating, modifying, and terminating an interactive session among two or more users that involves multimedia elements such as voice, video, instant...
as well as the IETF. SIPfoundry actively promotes the standardization of SIP and interoperability of SIP products and solution across the industry through the SIP Forum Test Framework (SFTF).
SIPfoundry is also the place where the development of sipX
SipX
sipXecs is an open source voice over IP telephony server. Its main feature is a software implementation of the Session Initiation Protocol , which makes it an IP based communications system . Featurewise, it is not unlike Asterisk, a very popular open source PBX, but the design of sipXecs deviates...
, an open source SIP PBX for Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, takes place. This project aims at commoditizing PBXs by offering a fully featured, standards-compliant, and easy-to-use SIP IP PBX for free as an open source solution. SIPfoundry would like SIP to become part of the Internet the same way HTTP, SMTP, and XML became ubiquitous and drove rapid adoption of new services across the Internet.