NAME
kiax - a simple to use IAX Client
SYNOPSIS
kiax [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the kiax program.
Some background information about Asterisk and IAX:
VoIP has become a hot topic and already is a part of our life. Different standards and platforms are already in development and use: H.323 and SIP are only some of the most famous used VoIP protocols. A marvellous piece of software called Asterisk PBX (http://www.asterisk.org), developed by Mark Spenser from Digium Inc. (http://www.digium.com) proved again that the Open Source CAN PRODUCE QUALITATIVE SOFTWARE for the business and can save money with its full set of features of an advanced PBX.
In the process of the development of Asterisk a new protocol has gathered the attention among the VoIP users - the Inter-Asterisk eXchange, or IAX (TM), Protocol, used as a native communication protocol between Asterisk PBX Servers. What is particularly good in it is that it requires only one UDP port per endpoint to create a successful communication channel for VoIP calls. This makes it much friendlier for users behind NAT, which is not the case with SIP and H.323 - they required specific router configurations for their channel establishment, thus hindering faster spread of VoIP on the home and corporate desktop.
The IAX (TM) protocol is already adopted by major VoIP providers and Telcos. If you register in Free World Dialup (http://www.fwdnet.net), IAXTel (http://www.iaxtel.com) or Freshtel (http://www.freshtel.net) or any other VoIP termination service like VoIPUser.org (http://www.voipuser.org) or PSTN Termination Provider like VoIP Jet (http://www.voipjet.com) then you may be interested in using Kiax.
What is Kiax? - Kiax is an IAX client application (a so called Softphone) which allows PC users to make ordinary VoIP calls to Asterisk servers, the same way as they do it with their hardware telephone. It aims to provide a simple and user-friendly graphical interface and desktop integration for calling, contact list, call register management and easy configuration. That is - a simple to use IAX Client.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). Currently no command line options are supported.
SEE ALSO
asterisk(8), iaxcomm(1), iaxmodem(1)
http://www.kiax.org - The Kiax Home Page
http://www.asterisk.org - The Asterisk Home Page
AUTHOR
kiax was written by Emil Stoyanov and the kiax team as found at http://kiax.sourceforge.net/en_credits.html.
This manual page was written by George Danchev <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).