Peerio Offically Announces Themselves
May 26, 2004 - 10:28am — bmann
Over a week ago we mentioned that Popular Telephony would be rolling out Peerio, well today they officially did. Promising a serverless peer to peer platform, the new Skype competitor, the company plans to introduce a separate enterprise application.
VoIP Watch (Andy Abramson): Peerio Offically Announces Themselves
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ineen vs skype
Although it seems that Skype has taken the world by storm, the real transport for Skype's popularity has been the widespread adoption of broadband. It's about being at the right place at the right time.
Now that we all have broadband and used Skype, it's time to look at the other options available in the market. And the future will definately be Open Standards. I don't want a different application installed on my computer to contact each of my friends. Inter-connection of networks is the future.
The new ineen VoIP solution provides all the familiar features of Skype with the addition of video and wideband audio. I've used the voice and video to call across the world, including a video conference on three continents. ineen is taking VoIP to the next level.
You're right
I don't want different applications. But most people aren't ready for video/audio yet. So, for starters, I want Skype integrated with all my other IM networks. A plugin for Adium on the Mac, and Trillian on the PC. SIPPhone is going part of the way there with PhoneGaim.
Skype is on the way out
I really think Skype is all about the mass hype on the internet these days.. The one thing going for it is that it is built on the GIPS voice engine, which is universally regarded as the best sound on the net. Unfortunately, because they use a proprietary protocol, I think they've really cornered themselves in terms of their ultimate potential.
I haven't used that many soft clients, but the ones I have used I haven't been that impressed it. Pingtel works decent, and FWD communicator isn't that hard to set it. I don't care for Communicator, simply because it's based on Microsoft's RTC, which isn't fully compliant with SIP in some areas (notably IM -- for example, windows messenger 4.7 won't IM properly to 5.0, even though they use RTC).
Erik Lagarway just posted about a new on-net client called ineen that has a great feature set, and was built using Xten's SDK. I've used it quite a bit, and I think it works really well. The real kicker for VOIP, which ineen has, is wideband codec support. You can check it out at sipthat.com
At least Skype runs on Linux
I've been using Skype for a couple months, and am overall satisfied with the quality. I also know that a lot of businesses use it with their employees who go overseas to work with a client.
I recently heard about Ineen, and wanted to try it out, but there isn't a Linux version :( It may be nice that Ineen is built on open standards, but at least Skype supports more platforms. Unless this open standards voip software runs on an open source OS I won't be trying it anytime soon.