Jingle Channel Driver for Asterisk

[MichiganTelephone]

In a message on the Jingle mailing list, Peter Thatcher of Google writes:

We are pleased to announce that we have launched support for Jingle XEP-166 and XEP-167 for Google Talk calls to and from Gmail, iGoogle, and Orkut. We have also added the same level of support to libjingle (http://code.google.com/p/libjingle), which is used by many native clients. From this point on, it will be our primary signalling protocol, and the old protocol will only remain for backwards compatibility. We also plan to soon update Google Talk on Android to speak Jingle, but we do not plan on updating the Google Talk Windows application.

We suggest all clients that interop with Google Talk to switch to using Jingle rather than the old protocol. We will remain backwards compatible with legacy clients by continuing to speak the old protocol as well. If you wish to continue working with legacy clients, such as the Google Talk application for Windows, you may also wish to continue speaking the old protocol. But the future is Jingle, and the old protocol will eventually go away.

Finally, we are still working on implementing XEP-176 (ICE-UDP). In the meantime, you'll need to use our draft-06 version of ICE, which is implemented both in libjingle and in libnice, two open source libraries.

I hope that this will be a support to the Jingle community and futher our efforts to have open standards for voice and video communication.

- Peter Thatcher

Also see this article from The Register:
Google battles MicroSkype with 'open' VoIP protocol

I wonder if there will be a Jingle channel driver for Asterisk?

 

[MisterQ]

IT is also interesting to note that Jingle will also support ZRTP, which means encryption of the voicestream, and ergo a) no eavesdropping of the calls and b) possibly through the "keys" of the encryption, a hook to identity. I note that a former co-worker of mine, ANdrew nash, has left a senior role at Paypal, and is now the head identity guy at Google - I must drop him a note to find out what the plan is - although, I find that even old friends, now at Google, tend to be tight-lipped...

An interesting observation on the Microsoft Skype acquisition. Microsoft is big on .NET. Concatenate SKYPE-.NET and you get SKYNET. What is the name of the ubiquitous and even computer network at the heart of the Terminator Movie series?

 

[eCase]

wasn't it called digium?