[ubuntu-za] Free VOIP Phone software

[Morgan Collett]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 20:26, Quintin van Rooyen
<quintin.vanrooyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 March 2010 20:18, Nico Michael (pta at ibst) <nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi There
>>
>> I am looking for a  Free VOIP Phone software  to use to phone via a CIP
>> server on the Internet
>>
>> preferably something that works on Ubuntu
>>
>> regards
>> Nico
>>
> Ekiga?
>
> Not sure if it is available since Koala though. I used it in intrepid and
> jaunty to divert our local VOIP in our office to my laptop, latency was
> crazy though since the best codecs are paid for and Ekiga generally uses
> FOSS codecs.

AFAIK Ekiga was removed from the default install because Empathy now
handles video/voice calls. You can still install Ekiga if you want it
though but try Empathy - it handles video/voice over XMPP by default,
and handles SIP if you install telepathy-sofiasip.

My company's looking at deploying an asterisk solution, and we were
recommended by the vendor to use Zoiper - http://www.zoiper.com/ -
there is a free ($$$) option which is apparently good and works on
Ubuntu. I haven't tried it yet though.

Regards
Morgan