[VoiceOps] "...but it works with Packet8"

[Matthew S. Crocker]

How is the Sofia SIP Stack, it is open sourced, developed by Nokia and claims to be compliant with RFCs

http://sofia-sip.sourceforge.net/

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Carlos Alvarez" <carlos at televolve.com>
> Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 11:56:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] "...but it works with Packet8"
> 
> Alex Balashov wrote:
> 
> > This is extremely unlikely, unless they inherited one via licensing
> from
> > an acquisition.
> >
> > Developing a SIP stack is a surprisingly capital-intensive
> endeavour, at
> > least, when it comes to working out interop issues and bugs, as well
> as
> > natural race conditions arising from a literal interpretation of
> RFC
> > 3261. All that testing and R&D is hard to afford. That's why the
> only
> > good SIP stacks have been around for at least ten years (though,
> from
> > this it does not follow that just because a SIP stack has been
> around
> > for ten years means it's any good).
> 
> I wouldn't say it's trivial to do it, but one of our partners has a
> 100% 
> custom-written and RFC-compliant stack and softphone which goes to
> great 
> lengths to penetrate any NAT--they guarantee it.  Licensing starts at
> 
> $42,000, however for a company the size of Packet 8 that would be
> trivial.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Carlos Alvarez
> TelEvolve
> 602-889-3003
> 
> 
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