GTalk2VoIP: VoIP Using Your Favorite Instant Messenger
March 20, 2008 by Jerome Locson
Filed under Computers
An Internet user should have an email account and uses Instant Messenger (IM) of any kind; it could be Yahoo! Messenger, MSN, Jabber, Google Talk, Skype , Gizmo, etc…
It has been obvious that the primary use of Internet, aside from information retrieval, is communication. Instant Messenger is always there for a real-time chat and talk. And we can still make use of these IMs to work with the VoIP infrastructure. GTalk2VoIP provide this service, bridging the gap of IM compatibility.
GTalk2VoIP provides both premium/paid and free services. GTalk2VoIP free services includes free incoming calls from PSTN, free outgoing calls to SIP phones, free incoming calls from SIP network, free internet radio broadcasting, voice mail service, voice conferencing service, free off-line messaging, free Instant Messaging interoperability, call from the Web service, and GTalk2VoIP for Your Domain service.
Paid service includes all free services mentioned about and on top of that, subscribers can do outgoing calls to mobile and landline phones (PSTN), callback initiated by IM message, and SMS service. For more details of these services, click here.
Rates may vary from country to country and the service provider.
GTalk2VoIP infrastructure uses the VoIP technology which can be depicted in two parts: VoIP Gatewaying core and Finite State Machine. (Click here to view the technical details of this technology.)
