[VALIDATED] - eyeBeam
Posted: 14 Jul 2006 17:02
To all,
I made a couple of tests this week with different sip softPhones. The one that answered all my expectations is eyeBeam from CounterPath ( http://www.counterpath.com ).
I had a couple of issues with it, and the technical support (thank to Andre) answered my emails right away to give me a hand to have it working.
The SDP RFC is ambiguous at best about whether this is legal, in the main body of the RFC is says something along the lines of "attribute names that aren't registered (I forget the wording they use) should start with "X-". But the grammar in one of the appendix seems to explicitly forbid the "-" character in an a= line. So depending on how the Alcatel and other phone interpreted the RFC, it may be rejecting that attribute, even though the RFC also says unrecognized attributes should be ignored.
Since getting the manufacturers to follow that part of the RFC could be difficult, the most recent version (1.5.7) should allow you to omit the x-rtp-session-id by doing the following:
Dial ***7469, filter for "session", and set system:sdp:include_x_rtp_session_id to 0.
Once this is done, you will be able to get eyeBeam work with your SIP trunk perfectly. The features are excellent, and the GUI interface is great.
On the top of that, eyeBeam is compatible with MacOS X !
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !

I made a couple of tests this week with different sip softPhones. The one that answered all my expectations is eyeBeam from CounterPath ( http://www.counterpath.com ).
I had a couple of issues with it, and the technical support (thank to Andre) answered my emails right away to give me a hand to have it working.
The SDP RFC is ambiguous at best about whether this is legal, in the main body of the RFC is says something along the lines of "attribute names that aren't registered (I forget the wording they use) should start with "X-". But the grammar in one of the appendix seems to explicitly forbid the "-" character in an a= line. So depending on how the Alcatel and other phone interpreted the RFC, it may be rejecting that attribute, even though the RFC also says unrecognized attributes should be ignored.
Since getting the manufacturers to follow that part of the RFC could be difficult, the most recent version (1.5.7) should allow you to omit the x-rtp-session-id by doing the following:
Dial ***7469, filter for "session", and set system:sdp:include_x_rtp_session_id to 0.
Once this is done, you will be able to get eyeBeam work with your SIP trunk perfectly. The features are excellent, and the GUI interface is great.
On the top of that, eyeBeam is compatible with MacOS X !
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !
