Comparison of RTMP-SIP products ^{September, 8}

Web-phones are very popular now.
Voip market is growing fast, but much more faster
growing market of browser web-telephony.

There no many players at this market
They are few, but they are all different and interesting.

We decided make a review of this market
just to compare existing flash-sip (rtmp-sip) products with each other
and help developers select the best for their project.

And the first thing we going to do – ask our customers
what options of flash-sip solutions most important to them
It will be a short survey that will help all of us
better understand the situation

Here are important parameters from our point of view
- Functionality
- Customizability
- Documentation
- Stability
- Support
- Price
- Further updates

Lets see what our customers think about it.

Follow our news -
and get detailed comparison
of the flash-sip products soon!

Java Script Phone – how it works? ^{August, 5}

Obviously, you can not make Java Script Phone.
JS technology simply does not allow it.
However, it is possible with Flashphoner JavaScript API.

How does it work?
The scheme is very simple.
Flashphoner server provides an API for flash applications allows you create your own flash-phones.
We made it as a library flashphoner_api.swc.
(API description here)

Using this library you can make phone on the Flash (ActionScript) technology.
As a result you will have flashphoner - flash app with phone interface and phone functionality
(please check example at the www.flashphoner.com main page)

But we go ahead! and use flashphoner_api.swc library for creating
an application flashphoner_js_api.swf. This flash app has no user interface,
this is just a library for creating Java Script phones!

That means you can make web phone using the JavaScript technology.
and this phone will call to regular phones via flashphoner_js_api.swf.

This flash app will appear in the page only in two cases
1. When you must allow to use the camera or microphone
2. When you want to watch/send video during the videocall (yes, videocalls also insluded!)
and will be hidden in the other cases, so you can play with GUI
without difficulty of ActionScript compiling

There is the scheme:
JavaScript –> flashphoner_api_js.swf –> Flashphoner server –> VOIP server –> Mobile/PSTN

Flash – makes all related to publishing and playing the streams
JavaScript – makes all related to user interface and call management
And it’s really usefull!

We made our JS phone as an example.
It turned out pretty easy and very convenient.
We also used JQuery, and it made it more easier.

We invite all try Java Script Phone!
We will release it in the next week,
we will keep you posted.

JavaScript Phone With Flashphoner ^{July, 27}

JavaScript better then Flash for any user interfaces in the web.

Why?
There is the reasons
1. Load faster
2. Work faster
3. Language is easier
4. Made faster – no compile needed
5. GUI elements can be placed in any place on th page

Flashphoner team love JavaScript!
And flashphones becomes java-script-phones.

All popular things made by script language.
Just imagine if Facebook or Linkedin interface will be made on Flash.
You can die from waiting!

We want you make cool easy web phone in 5 minutes.
And you can do it with Flashphponer JavaScript API.
You can build this javascript phone to any user personal page,
place javascript click2call buttons anywhere on our website,
whether this is web online-shop, sorporate site or internet-radio

The future is an light and easy interfaces,
and we make web-telephony light and easy.

You wonna know how jsphone works?
We will cover this in next post

How to try ^{May, 18}

Flashphoner – the only solution on the market with such good price/quality ratio. You couldn`t find software with this list of characteristics and for this price. Also Flashphoner has Free Developer Version for 10-connects (unlimited in time).

Easy integration ^{May, 18}

In this age of rapid changes, any software is valuable not only by their features, but mostly by simplicity of the integration into existing complex. Flashphoner made great strides in this direction. Integration takes 1-2 weeks in average, including testing and debugging. Reasons – detailed documentation and jet support team, which helps implement Flashphoner in a few days.

Load Balancing ^{May, 18}

When you provide users with a new feature – be ready for impact. When the calls flow will increased several times – you can easily balance the Flashphoner load, by placing it on multiple servers. Flashphoner load monitored by a special http interface, which issue this statistics of each server on request from your web server. So your load balancer can easily track Flashphoner load statistics and distribute connects for the optimal load blancing.

Flashphoner default client ^{May, 18}

Yes, except the server side, Flashphoner also has a client applications in complete. There are two kinds of this – Web phone with many buttons, and Click-to-Call button with one “Call button” and predetermined call destination. Both are open source and you can easily change their interfaces and functional. Both have Java Script API.

Support for DTMF (tone dial) ^{May, 18}

DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi Frequency), or tone dialing – the basis of voice menu navigation – is absolutely essential if you are processing a lot of calls. For many years, organizations around the world to save on phone consultants wages using all the advantages of voice menu (IVR, Interactive Voice Response).
Internet telephony does not lag a step, and Flashphoner – Flash-VoIP server (gateway) also has DTMF support.
This means that users, whom call you from website, will be able to use your convenient voice menu.

Java Script API ^{May, 18}

Flashphone, built into the website, often require automatic control. You want the users to manage their click2call buttons or web-phones from the control panel of for your service. Flashphoner client application has muli-functional Java Script API.
Your site will be able to fully manage your flashphone by the special scripts functions.

Support SIP 2.0 ^{May, 18}

SIP protocol – the heart of Flashphoner. SIP support, this universal protocol for establish call sessions, makes it possible to call from Flash to anywhere. Flashphoner working on the RFC3261 specification.
At this point, SIP – is the best protocol for establishing call sessions. SIP also supports such features as HOLD, TRANSFER, CONFERENCE and much more.
All of this enhances Flashphoner opportunities.

Meet some fixes ^{February, 8}

Hello, guys!
Please check new version in Downloads

Server:
- Added logs for timer task exceptions
- Removed port from REGISTER and INVITE requests
- Fixed exception: “Method parameter value is out of range”
- Added property for configuring of outbound port 4060 instead of 5060
- Diagnostic patch transaction monitoring dynamic log_level configuration

Client
- Fixed “Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL” problem
- Fixed autologin in Phone.js
- AEC works now with Player 11 and Ru localization.
- New design for PhoneJS new design
- Use SipConstants instead of 5060
- Use only RtmpClientConfig for rtmpclients
- Fixed Debian install.sh bug with “uname -i”

Click2Call released ^{December, 8}

Finally we released Click2Call version! (check downloads)

Main thing of this version is the Featured JavaScript Click2call solution, from now you can create your own Click2Call services.

Most usefull feature here – is abililty to configure rules for control click2call calls. You can dynamically set caller accounts and callee accounts (FROM and WHERE it will make the calls)

Lets see how it works.

1. Download and install Flashphoner

Don`t forget install server and then client.

2. Place Click2Call button on site of your user/partner

Use Click2CallJS.html as example.

3. Configure Click2Call

Set rules what accounts will be used for calls and what numbers it will call

4. Start Click2Call service!

All buttons calls to different numbers using different accounts. And you can control it.

Enjoy new JS Click2Call and write us with any questions.

Flash Player 11 released ^{October, 6}

3rd of October Adobe released new Flash Player 11!

This is an extremely important event for the flash-telephony market, because new flash player supports two fundamental things for the web-telephony.
This is h.264 (hd video) and g.711 (most popular audio) codecs.
So, server-side transcoding is no longer needed.

That mean:
1. Audio and video delay will smaller
2. Productivity of server side will higher (more concurrent calls)

We are working at implementing Flash Player 11 support right now, and plan finish it during this week.
According to our preliminary tests, support for this codecs in the new player will increase the server productivity not less than twice.

Follow our news and we will tell you more about it.

Flashphoner source code here! ^{September, 21}

Hey, guys!

Fom now you can find source code of Flashphoner-client here https://github.com/flashphoner/flashphoner_client

From now our team will work in this repository and you
always will have actually source code.

Also we updated Developer Guide, please check it.

P.S.
Do not miss!
We will keep you posted about new click2call features,
which will be released during next 30 days.

Flashphoner becomes a Wowza partner! ^{September, 20}

From now Flashphoner becomes Wowza Media product partner.

Our team works with Wowza during three years, and all the time we get a stable and fast support and always have a good relationship.

Flashphoner server based on Wowza Media Server platform, and we highly recommend for all this multi-streaming server as extremely stable and rapidly evolving product with excellent technical support

We are very gratefull for help to all Wowza Media team and especially to Alex Dobrushin, Wowza CMO

JS Phone released! ^{September, 19}

Flashphoner released “JS Phone” version.
Main feature – JavaScript API and built-in JavaScript Phone.
Please try it here.

We working hard last month and make lots of fixes, improving and code refactoring to make Flashphoner stronger and faster.
You can create cool JS Phones from now.

Our plans for October and November:
- Make full-featured Click2Call solution (with some cool features)
- Implement support of Flash Player 11 (with support h264 and g711 on the client side)
Please write us all suggestions to [email protected]

By the way, on the next week we will post detailed description about our next Click2Call solution.
Be in touch!

Yours,
Flashponer team

JS Phone pre-released! ^{August, 26}

This friday we are happy inform you that Flashphoner pre-released new “JS API” version with the JavaScript Phone!

New Flashphoner version contain JavaScript API so you can create your own web-phones using JavaScript techology.
Also we developed our version of JS Phone and include it in this pack.
it`s open source, of cource.

We believe this is a truly significant moment in the history of the web-telephony,
because appearance of such usefull JavaScript phones starts the new era of penetration phone communication in the web.

Please try it and tell us – how it is going.

Always yours,
Flashphoner Team
(download page)

Meet Flashphoner JavaScript API ^{July, 27}

Our team works at JS API right now.
We will prepare for you Full-featured JavaScript Phone with Video, Transfer, Hold and other features.
Also auto-login feature will be included here.

Please write us any suggestions about JS API functions or any features
and we will include it to our roadmap.

Meet Starter license for only $500! ^{July, 20}

Flashphoner present Starter licence.
Starter license is designed for small volume of calls and has some functional restrictions.
We made price ​​especially small to give you opportunity to try the Flash-Telephony almost for free.
It cost only $500.

H.264 support oficially released! ^{July, 19}

H.264 support has been fully tested and ready for use in production.
Download it here.