MacOS X and Darwin

MacOS X is Apple Computer Inc‘s operating system, powered by a BSD subsystem called Darwin.

Open standards-based SIP VoIP technologies available on MacOSX

• 3CX – Softphone app for Mac – for use with 3CX software PBX available on-premise on Windows or Linux or in the cloud with Google, Amazon and OVH.
• Asterisk – the open source PBX and multi-protocol VoIP server
• Blink – A fully featured SIP client for MacOSX (GPLv3) with support for IM, File Transfer and Desktop Sharing based on MSRP
• call.center softphone for Mac – Free, innovative and fully featured SIP client for MacOS with support for multi-party conferencing, call transfer and remote provisioning.
• iaxComm – the open source IAX softphone
• ZoIPer – Multiplatform IAX soft phone (universal binary) (formerly Idefisk)
• JackenIAX – IAX Soft Phone for Mac OS X.
• SylkServer – Multiparty multimedia conference server, free for Linux, OSX version is a paid application in the Mac App Store
• Telephone – minimalist yet powerful native open source SIP softphone
• VDK – Voip Development Kit – the cross-platform, c++ framework to create VoIP applications in a breeze.
• X-Lite – Counterpath’s free SIP softphone
• Bria 4 – Counterpath’s Full-Featured SIP and XMPP client ($)
• Xmeeting – H323/SIP Audio Video Max OSX client, universal binaries.
• Linphone A multi-platform SIP client (GPLv2). Linphone is available for: Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Android, iOS and Blackberry.

Proprietary non-standard VoIP technologies available on MacOSX

• iChat AV – Apple’s proprietary non-standard audio and video chat client
• Skype – Skype is a softphone only based application & service for calling other people on their computers for free or POTS phone for a charge

Database integration with Asterisk under MacOSX

• Asterisk and OS X and Database Integration – A walkthru guide for setting up Database integration under OS X

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See Also

• Setting up Asterisk/Macintalk/tftp on a Mac Mini – Collected from many sources across the net.

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