2011-05-15 10:54:17 
阿炯
GNU SIP Witch 是一个基于 SIP 的办公电话呼叫服务器，支持一般的电话系统功能，例如呼叫转移、群组通话、分组铃声等功能。支持在互联网上的安全通话以及点对点语音视频通话的扩展。这不是一个 SIP 代理，是一个多协议的电话服务器。
GNU SIP Witch is a secure peer-to-peer VoIP server that uses the SIP protocol. Calls can be made peer-to-peer behind NAT firewalls, and without needing a service provider. GNU SIP Witch does not perform codec operations and thereby enables SIP endpoints to directly peer negotiate call setting and process peer to peer media streaming even when when multiple SIP Witch call nodes at multiple locations are involved. This means GNU SIP Witch operates without introducing additional media latency or offering a central point for media intercept or capture. GNU SIP Witch can be used to build secure and intercept-free telephone systems that can operate over the public Internet.
GNU SIP Witch is designed to support network scaling of telephony services, rather than the heavily compute-bound solutions we find in use today. This means a call node has a local authentication/registration database, and this will be mirrored, so that any active call node in a cluster will be able to accept and service a call. This allows for the possibility of live failover support in the future as well.
GNU SIP Witch is not a SIP "router", and does not try to address the same things as a project like iptel "Ser". GNU SIP Witch is being designed to create on-premise SIP telephone systems, telecenter servers, and Internet hosted SIP telephone systems. One important feature will include use of URI routing to support direct peer to peer calls between service domains over the public internet without needing mediation of an intermediary "service provider" so that people can publish and call sip: uri's unconstrained. GNU SIP Witch is about freedom to communicate and the removal of artifical barriers and constraints whether imposed by monopoly service providers or by governments.
GNU SIP Witch can also be used to construct embedded telephony services as part of GNU Telephony Open Embedded. GNU SIP Witch is built from GNU uCommon, which optionally offers a complete runtime C++ library environment for developing deeply embedded targets without requiring the use of the ANSI C++ standard library, rtti, exception handling, or STL templates. GNU SIP Witch will also build on all versions of GCC from 2.95 through 4.4, and with many other C++ compilers as well as on most platforms including GNU/Linux, xBSD systems, Mac OS/X, and Microsoft Windows.
最新版本：1.8
Support for systemd init.
Multi-protocol context aware when built with exosip2 4.x for concurrent TCP/UDP/TLS sip sessions in a single server instance.
An SRV plugin to better support automatic resolution of remote users through DNS (requires libruli to use).
Improved mingw build support
项目主页：http://www.gnu.org/software/sipwitch/