Get ready to try Debian SIP

Before going on to talk about SIP, there is one really important thing that must be emphasized: XMPP/Jabber is also in the roadmap. Some of the infrastructure that has already been deployed (the new RTC passwords in ud-ldap, the TURN server and the RADIUS server) is good for both SIP and XMPP use cases.

All to be revealed on Sunday

As mentioned in my recent blog about the Debian.org NAPTR record, more details will be coming in my talk at mini-DebConf Paris this weekend.

Today I'm just going to describe some things to install for those who want a head start.

Jitsi

Jitsi has been around for many years (originally as SIP Communicator) and it is probably the most advanced desktop softphone in the free software world.

Jitsi packages are in jessie and sid - why not install them now. If you don't want to pull in dependencies from jessie on your wheezy system, you can also download from upstream and run it standalone.

WebRTC browsers

I've prepared a JSCommunicator implementation based on the jscommunicator-web-phone package.

To use it, you need the latest version of Iceweasel/Firefox or Chromium. As HTML5 WebRTC / RTCPeerConnection is an evolving standard, using a recent browser is essential.

Jitsi configuration for sip:debian.org

It is not open for users just yet, but this is how you will configure it when it is available. More details to come...