Kiax - VoIP-Info

Kiax started in early 2004 as a small program mainly aimed to provide a simple user interface for making VoIP calls with Asterisk PBX (an open source VoIP PBX). Its first versions showed the existing need for a user-friendly, free and open softphone. Currently Kiax has been downloaded by more than 60 000 users (stats from SourceForge.net) and is available for direct installation from the repositories of the major Linux distros (Ubuntu, SuSE). While it is functionally rich and considerably stable its development has reached a state where modification and customization became difficult, thus Kiax ver. 2 – the new generation Kiax – faces those requirements with a different architecture.

Kiax ver. 2

Kiax ver.2 is a complete re-write of the softphone which aims to clean up the issues met in the old generation and to provide a more flexible code base for extension and customization. Main supporters of the project are the companies Forschung-Direkt and MIXvoip.

Target goals and features:

LGPL-licensed core, GPL GUI
Decoupled Signaling, Storage and Visualization aspects
Modularized, lightweight core layer
GCC4 ready code
Single codebase for Linux, Windows and MacOS
SQLite as default storage backend
QT4.4 as GUI frontend
Webkit integration
Even simpler (than old Kiax) to use UI
Completely brandable
Remote configuration
Simplified integration with service providers (via JSON)
Support for multiple service providers
Support for simultaneous calls
Registry fail-over support
Live CDR and Contacts search
Codecs: G711, iLBC, GSM, Speex
Noise reduction filter
I18n support
.TEL resolving of contact data

Kiax ver 2 has been released on 24.09.2008. Binary builds are available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS on SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiax/.
Kiax ver 2.1 Beta 1 has been released on 03.01.2009 and features .TEL functionality – users can save .tel domain names or dial directly .tel domain names where the softphone resolves the contact data.

Home Page: http://www.forschung-direkt.eu/projects/kiax2

Kiax 0.8.x (legacy, unsupported)

Kiax is an IAX softphone that uses iaxclient for IAX communication and QT3.x (for Linux) and QT4 (Windows) as GUI.

Despite of the “K” at the beginning of its name, Kiax runs well NOT ONLY ON KDE, but also on other desktop environments. There is a port of its latest version (0.8.51) to Windows based on the GPL version of QT4

Features:

Multiple registration accounts
Multiple call appearances
Hold/resume call
Call Transfer
Noise reduction
Echo cancellation
AGC
Supports ULAW, GSM, iLBC, Speex
Grouped Contact List
DTMF Dialpad
Call Register
User-friendly Settings Dialog
Customizable User Interface
Desktop integration
Direct IAX URL dialing possible
Command-line dialing possible
Command execution on incoming call
International Support – English, Czech, German, French, Polish, Bulgarian, Brasilian Portuguese, Macedonian, Malay, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew

Current version: 2.1 Beta1

Legacy version: 0.8.51
NOTE: Please update your Kiax to version 0.8.51 – it fixes security flaw in iaxclient’s code, as well as fixes amd64 md5 authorization problem.

Home Page: https://www.forschung-direkt.eu/projects/kiax2
Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiax/
Supported Platforms: Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD (version 0.8.4 in ports), Microsoft Windows (32-bit 2000/XP)
Sources, binaries and installation packages (deb, rpm, .exe) are available via the download page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kiax/

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