Your only option for a Mac softphone would be a 3rd party SIP client. I can't provide any guidance on that as I haven't tried to get a SIP softphone working with any express products. You would also likely lose some functionality with SIP clients. ``Solid Softphone for SIP calls`` The largest benefit to this software is convenience and cost effectiveness. Bria is compatible with many third party applications and most SIP providers will offer configuration support. The combined softphone and USB headset cost is much less than a VOIP phone / headset combo and has no desktop footprint.
Blink is the best real-time communications client using the SIP protocol.
You can use it with many SIP providers, on the LAN using Bonjour and with SIP2SIP, a free service.
You can use it with many SIP providers, on the LAN using Bonjour and with SIP2SIP, a free service.
Elegant, simple to use and feature-full
Available for Windows and Linux and on the Mac App Store for OSX
Features
Voice and Video
- Studio Audio Quality (Opus codec)
- HD Video (H.264 codec)
- Acoustic Echo Cancellation
- End-to-end Encryption (ZRTP)
IM & Presence
- Chat Sessions (MSRP)
- End-to-end Encryption (OTR)
- Presence (SIMPLE)
- Server Storage (XCAP)
File Transfers
- File Sessions (MSRP)
- Encryption (TLS)
- Progress Reports
- Delivery Confirmation
Screen Sharing
- Help Family Remotely
- Collaboration at Work
- Surf Internet Together
- Integrated with Audio
Conferencing
- Manage Participants
- VoIP, IM and Presence
- File Transfers
- Screen Sharing
To use Blink, you need a SIP Account. At first start, Blink shows thewindow that helps you configure the initial SIP Account.
Contents
- SIP Accounts
- Add an Existing SIP Account
- Advanced Account Settings
SIP Accounts
You may configure Blink to use multiple SIP Accounts. To add a new SIP Account,go to menu Preferences->Accounts and click the .
The Add Account window shows up and you can repeat the steps described above.
After you have configured a SIP Account, you can see the status of the registration in theaccount list of Main window. Solid color means that the account hassuccessfully registered, gray color means that the registration has failed or isin progress.
You can also see the status of the registration in the account listof Preferences window:
- Green color means that the account has successfully registered
- Red color the registration has failed
- Yellow color means that the registration process is in progress.
A successful registration means that you are able to receive incoming calls with Blink.
Add an Existing SIP Account
If you already have a SIP account from a SIP service provider, select this option then enter the SIP address in the form of user@domain and the password. If the SIP service provider has set his infrastructure correctly, all server address settings will be automatically discovered by entering the SIP address and password.
Unfortunately, most SIP service providers do not tell their users what their SIP address is. Imagine your email provider giving you an account without telling you what is your email address…
The reason for making things complicated is that SIP service providers are either un-willing or incapable of setting up their DNS and SIP infrastructure correctly and confuse users about how to configure their SIP accounts.
Such providers typically provide separate username and server address information instead of a SIP address. The SIP address is composed by concatenating the username part and the server part format with an @ sign. Bioshock infinite codex. Additional manual settings for the server address, transport and protocols can be made in Advanced Account Settings explained below.
The username
Different SIP service providers may refer to this in such ways, they are all the same thing:
- Username
- Account number
- Authentication Name
- Login name
- Phone number
- Extension number
- Number
The server
Different SIP service providers may refer to this in such ways, they are all the same thing:
- Server name
- Server address
- IP address
- Proxy address
- Outbound Proxy
- Domain
- Realm
- SIP server
- SIP registrar
Concatenate the username part and the server part as follows:
username@server
Create a Free SIP Account
Sip Windows Client
Use this option if you do not have a SIP Account, Blink can create one for you using the free service provided by SIP2SIP. All Blink features are supported by this service.
For more information about the features of the SIP service go to http://sip2sip.info
It is recommended that you always create such account to benefit of the features beyond VoIP provided by Blink. Using a sip2sip.info account you can sync the address book between multiple instances of Blink, bridge to XMPP domains and create multi party conferences.
iCloud sync
The default option is to sync the new account across all computers configured for the the same iCloud account. This means that any changes to any account will be synchronised across all your computers running Blink.
Advanced Account Settings
Sip Clients For Mac Catalina
Outbound Proxy
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If the SIP provider does not have proper DNS records set for his domain to point to its SIP server address and port numbers as defined by RFC3263, Blink will not be able to auto-discover its location.In such case you must set the Outbound Proxy setting in Preferences->SIP Account-> Advanced->SIP Signaling. Also you can use this setting to force a specific transport or port different than the ones discovered from DNS.
Sip Softphone Mac
The outbound proxy format is host.example.com:5060;transport=udp.