Hosted VoIP solutions provider Solegy (News - Alert)™ (News - Alert) this week announced the launch of its free softphone, designed to run on Microsoft (News - Alert) Windows. The softphone is based entirely on open source code, which can be accessed through Solegy’s OpenSourceSIP initiative.

 

Solegy noted in its announcement that the SIP-based softphone is completely compatible with the company’s hosted ServicePDQ™ platform. The softphone also can be customized to include branded skins, instant messaging, and advanced account management features (e.g. pre-paid balance, one-click credit purchasing).

 

Further flexibility is provided by the softphone’s ability to be embedded in a Web page or distributed in a Windows or Mac OS X install file.

 

“We are making the Softphone available to everyone who wants to experience the ease of making VoIP calls through their computer,” Solegy’s CEO and co-founder, Eric Hernaez. said in a statement.

 

Hernaez continued: “This is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of what we can create for service providers who want to adapt the Softphone for their customers. The basic Softphone we are offering can be customized to not only create a unique look, but to take advantage of the many service management features available in our hosted environment.”

 

Among the back-office functions the softphone can deliver to service providers are:

Application developers interested in the new softphone can find the tools they need through Solegy’s MPL-licensed, OpenSourceSIP initiative, which provides access to a free SIP stack and associated reference implementation of SIP-based applications.

 

In its announcement, Solegy explained that SIP, which it describes as a peer-to-peer processing protocol, “allows next-generation services including VoIP, video, instant messaging and online games to take place through session initiation, modification and termination.”

 

To learn more about Solegy’s softphone, and its other solutions, please visit the Hosted VoIP and Wholesale VoIP channels on TMCnet.com.

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