In this blog post, we'll talk about various open source software that has leading role in emergence of Information and communication technologies (ICTs). Following is list of top rated, mature and reliable open source telecom applications that revolutionized the communication concepts. This list is categorized in different domains each containing the list of software in that domain.

IP Telephony applications

• FreeSWITCH

  A Cross-platform, Scalable, Stable Multi-Protocol Soft Switch ,The project inspired from renown Open Source asterisk PBX system but very well designed and has a bright future http://www.freeswitch.org

• Asterisk

  A software-based, Open Source Converged PBX system that has revolutionized the traditional PBX industry http://www.asterisk.org

• Kamailio

  SIP proxy server, call router, and user agent registration server used in Voice over Internet Protocol and instant messaging applications. http://www.kamailio.org/w/

• OpenSIPS

  SIP proxy server, call router, registration server and redirect server suitable for internet telephony service providers to offer SIP based telephony services to their customers. http://www.opensips.org

• Sipexes

  SipX ECS (Enterprise Communications Server) is SIP based voice over IP telephony server, an ideal enterprise grade, SIP based communications system (IP PBX) http://www.sipfoundry.org

• Gnugk

  H.323 gatekeeper based on the OpenH323 stack. A gatekeeper provides address translation, admissions control, call routing, authorization and accounting services http://www.gnugk.org

• OpenSBC

  Session Border Controller and B2BUA featuring Registrations, B2BUA, NAT traversal and ENUM http://www.opensipstack.org

Asterisk & Freeswitch GUI interfaces

• BlueBox

  Latest monitoring and management tool, full-featured PBX GUI of freeswitch http://www.2600hz.org

• FreePBX

  A full-featured PBX GUI supporting both asterisk and freeswitch http://freepbx.org

• Elastix

  An open source Unified Communications Server software that brings together IP PBX, email, IM, faxing and collaboration functionality http://www.elastix.org

• TrixBox

  Web based asterisk PBX managment software utilizing best open source tools built over asterisk http://www.trixbox.org

• PBXinaflash

  PBXinaflash is a web based asterisk PBX managment software built over asterisk like Elastix and Trixbox http://pbxinaflash.net/

• Druid

  Druid is unified communications platform for enterprises. It allows companies to deploy high end IP communications services using off the shelf hardware and IP phones. http://www.voiceroute.org

• Vicidial

  Vicidial ( Astguiclient ) is a professional web based inbound / outbound call center solution built over asterisk http://astguiclient.sourceforge.net

Communications Frameworks

Plivo

• Plivo is freeswitch based communication framework which provides web developers with basic building blocks to create voice based applications in the form of RESTXML and RESTAPI (REST-based APIs) also Plivo is compatible and works with Java, .NET, node.js, Perl, PHP, Python or Ruby programming languages. http://www.plivo.org

Communication Libraries

• PJSIP

  Pjsip is sip based open source high performance communication library with multimedia capabilities written in C language for building embedded/non-embedded VoIP applications. http://www.pjsip.org/

Broadcasting Platform

• ICTDialer

  ICTDialler is next generation powerful auto dialler software that support sms messaging, fax broadcasting , voice broadcasting . It is bundled with IVR builder to create custom IVR with ease through web based drag and drop IVR Designer's tools . http://www.ictdialer.org

Billing Systems

• A2billing

  A2Billing combined with Asterisk is a physical Telecom Platform and Soft-Switch providing a wide range of telecoms services using both traditional telephone technology or VoIP. It contains a real time billing engine http://www.asterisk2billing.org

• ASTPP

  A calling card voip solution built over asterisk and freeswitch http://www.astpp.org

• Freeside

  Freeside is the premier open-source billing, CRM, trouble ticketing and provisioning automation software for wired and wireless ISPs, VoIP, hosting, service and content providers and other online businesses. http://www.sisd.com/freeside

• CDRTool

  a rating and mediation engine for Call Detail Records generated by opensips and others http://www.ag-projects.com/CDRTool.html

• ICTFAX

  An email to fax gateway, supports G.711 faxing , PSTN faxing and T.38 origination and termination .ICTFAX is complete faxing solution http://www.ictfax.org

• CitrusDB

  A Multi-user Billing solution for internet service, subscriptions, consulting, and telecommunications , It Provides CRM, Ticketing, Invoicing, and Credit Card Batches http://www.citrusdb.org/

Voip softphones / Clients

• Twinkle

  Twinkle is sip based softphone and support both voice over IP and and instant messaging communications , It is sip standard compliant with advance features including secure voice communications using ZRTP / SRTP. http://www.twinklephone.com//

• QuteCom

  QuteCom is cross platform open source softphone supporting Voice, Video and IM with advance features also support SRTP, QuteCom is developed using Python , C and C++ . http://trac.qutecom.org/wiki

• SFLphone

  SFLphone is SIP and IAX based standards-compliant enterprise softphone, for desktop and embedded systems. It support Multi line and TLS / SRTP encryption http://sflphone.org/

Mobile Clients

• Csipsimple

  A native android client based open source PJSIP library stack , secure version of Csipsimple also support ZRTP, SIP TLS and SRTP http://code.google.com/p/csipsimple/

• Sipdroid

  Sipdroid is native android client developed over PJSIP stack . http://sipdroid.org/

• Siphon

  Siphone is sip compliant Iphone client based on PJSIP SIP stack http://code.google.com/p/siphon/

SIP Protocol Stacks and Libraries

• eXosip

  eXosip is a library that hides the complexity of using the SIP protocol for mutlimedia session establishement. This protocol is mainly to be used by VoIP telephony applications http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/exosip/

• Juphoon SIP Stack

  Rich software SDK support SIP, SDP, XML, RTP/RTCP, HTTP, STUN, ABNF etc. Support Windows, Linux, ThreadX, Vxworks etc. libdissipate SIP stack http://www.juphoon.com/en/products/sip.htm

• Libre

  Portable SIP Stack under BSD license with IPv4/v6 support (SIP,SDP,RTP/RTCP,STUN,TURN,ICE,DNS) http://www.creytiv.com/

• MjSip

  MjSip is a complete java-based implementation of a SIP stack. It provides in the same time the API and implementation bound together into the MjSip packages. http://www.mjsip.org/

• NIST SIP

  A series of SIP applications, tools and libraries in JAVA. http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/proj/iptel/

• PJSIP

  PJSIP is an Open Source Embedded SIP protocol stack written in C. The development of PJSIP is mainly focused on having small footprint, modular, and very portable SIP stack for embedded development purpose (although it's perfectly good for Win32/Linux/MacOS as well). http://www.pjsip.org/

• Twisted

  Python protocol stacks and applications includes SIP support. http://www.twistedmatrix.com/

• SIP SIMPLE client SDK

  High level middleware on top of SIP, RTP, MSRP and XCAP protocols http://sipsimpleclient.org/

• ivrworx

  high level Lua interface to SIP/RTSP/MRCP, for testing distributed VoIP scenarios (windows, Vista+ clients). http://code.google.com/p/altalena/

References: http://ictinnovations.com