Awesome VoIP and video conferencing application for your Windows OS!

Ekiga

September, 26th 2022 20.53 MB Open Source

Latest Version:	Ekiga 4.0.1 LATEST
Requirements:	Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10
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Author / Product:	Ekiga Team / Ekiga
Filename:	ekiga-setup-4.0.1+.exe
Details:	519e692059f80803d4c1646738b7b272

Ekiga (formerly known as GnomeMeeting) is an open-source SoftPhone, Video Conferencing, and Instant Messenger application over the Internet. It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality.

Because it uses both of the major telephony standards (SIP and H.323), it is interoperable with many service providers and many types of hardware and software.

Features and Highlights

Ease of use with a modern Graphical User Interface
Audio and Video free calls through the internet
Free Instant Messaging through the Internet with Presence support
Audio (and video) calls to landlines and cell phones with support to the cheapest service providers
High Definition Sound (wideband) and Video Quality up to DVD quality (high framerate, state-of-the-art quality codec, and frame size)
Free of choice of the service provider
SMS to cell phones if the service provider supports it (like the default provider)
Standard Telephony features support like Call Hold, Call Transfer, Call Forwarding, DTMF
Remote and Local Address Book support: Remote Address Book support with authentification using the standard LDAP technology, Local Address support in Gnome (Evolution)
Multi-platform: Windows and GNU/Linux
Wide interoperability: Ekiga uses the main deployed standards for telephony protocols (SIP and H.323) and has been tested with a wide range of softphones, hard phones, PBX, and service providers
HIG Compliant GUI: Ekiga looks right, behaves properly, and fits into the GNOME user interface as a whole
Translated into Many Languages
Contact-centric interface: preferred contacts can be listed in the main user interface (Buddy List)
Contact's presence display: Offline, Away, Busy, Online status (SIP/SIMPLE)
Automatic addition of network neighbor contacts in the main user interface (using the Bonjour/ZeroConf protocol)
Separate call window
Desktop wide notifications
Connection quality meter in the status bar
Message Waiting Indications Support: the app can tell you how many voicemails are waiting
Easy to use short-cuts
Easy account selection when dialing for a contact: auto-completion
Call Hold: This effectively pauses Video and audio transmission
Call Transfer: You can transfer the remote user to another user
Call Forwarding on No Answer, on Busy, Always: This allows you to convince Ekiga to forward incoming calls to a specific user
Message Waiting Indications Support
Dialpad: This allows you to dial numbers using a graphical alphanumeric keypad
DTMFs Support: This feature is necessary when using services asking you to dial numbers
Calls History: This is a convenient way for all outgoing and incoming calls
Call Monitoring: Statistics about the network traffic caused by Ekiga are displayed in the status bar
Call Auto-Answer: Automatically answer all incoming calls
Instant Messaging with built-in smiley support (SIP)
Graphical selection of smiley for easy inclusion in a text message
Presence display: display your peer chat status
Local network integration using the Rendez-Vous/Bonjour/ZeroConf protocol: Ekiga users in the local network will show up automatically
Detection of dynamic IP address changes and dynamic addition and removal of network interfaces
Assisted NAT Support (automated STUN support): It has extensive and improved NAT support. In most cases, you do not have any configuration to do.
Gateway/Proxy Support
And many more features!