Additional Information
Awesome VoIP and video conferencing application for your Windows OS!
| Latest Version | Ekiga 4.0.1 |
| Requirements |
Windows XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8/Windows 10 |
| Updated | June 24, 2023 |
| Author | Ekiga Team |
| Category | Messaging and Chat |
| License | Open Source |
| Language | English |
| Download | 33 |
Overview
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
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 use the main deployed standards for telephony protocols (SIP and H.323) and has been tested with a wide range of softphones, hardphones, 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 neighbors 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 Voice Mails are waiting
- Easy to use short-cuts
- Easy account selection when dialing for a contact: auto-completion
- Call Hold: This effectively pauses Video & 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 configure Ekiga to forward incoming calls to a specified 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!
