SIP Communicator is Coming Back To The Family

After putting on hold Jingle support for some time, Emil Ivov, the SIP Communicator Founder, told me today that they are adding Jingle again in early 2010. And it will also come fully packed with new and powerful features like ICE P2P communication and Video support!

He mentioned that SIP Communicator project have now a speed boost, as they graciously received funding from NLnet foundation, concerning the completion of the ice4j stack, Jingle telephony, brand new support for file transfer, and multi-party conference calls for SIP and Jingle/XMPP.



Some Super Cool Expected Features:
* Jingle ICE - Enabling P2P and server-less communication
* Jingle Video - Enable real time Video chat
* H264 Codec - Provides great video quality with regular bandwidth usage
* ZRTP - Secure and encrypted Audio/Video Streams

Stay Tuned for More Jingle Happy Days!

Adobe goes P2P - XMPP and FMS

After Google requirement of having a P2P method to provide Voice and Video on GMail, Adobe finally put some effort and released a very decent support for P2P on Flash Player 10.
It is called Stratus and you can also you it as we do in UDP-ICE, we can have several alternative and fall-back methods, including RTMP as a last resort.

Adobe was probably holding this at all costs as they were afraid on the reduction of amount of FMS license sales. But it turns out that at some point they needed to open it, so they could get bigger market share, as not everybody can afford 100% of Audio/Video proxied on their networks.
This also means that every company now can have their own Voip Services and also full featured Video Conference Platforms running internally using only an ejabberd and FMS on server side and browser based application on client side.

I tested myself the UDP based traffic, and the quality as expect actually much better with compared with the Slow and Lagged RTMP TCP based solution, specially in long distance and high latency networks.



Check it out at:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/stratus/

Looks like now we have more consistent reasons to have kind of Flash RTMFP Transport in Jingle.
You can also see a very cool tutorial on this link (Flash P2P Tutorial).

Why use Jingle?

Back in early 2006 I was working at Jive Software with Matt Tucker in a presentation for OSCON.
We were very excited as it was just after we published the very first Smack-Jingle version containing also the first implementation of Jingle ICE protocol in the world that was based on XSF Standards.

This presentation makes a parallel between SIP and Jingle and also exemplify why Jingle can solve P2P issues on SIP. The illustration of how ICE works is also awesome!

Check the presentation here:
Jingle-Cutting-Edge-Voip

Cheers Matt!