Trans-Atlantic IPv6 calls made

A series of successful VoIP calls over IPv6 has been carried out, "marking an important advancement in worldwide interoperability among VoIP technologies using IPv6", the IPv6 Forum has announced.

Using the CounterPath eyeBeam softphone, VoIP calls were made between Viagenie in Canada and Consulintel in Spain, ported by Viagenie through the IPv6 version of Asterisk.

Asterisk is the most popular and extensible open source telephone system in the world, and is a complete IP PBX (private branch exchange) for businesses that can be downloaded for free.

"Asterisk-IPv6 shows the power of VoIPv6 by avoiding all issues regarding NAT traversal when using IPv4. The presence of NAT for VoIPv4 results in user's issues, such as non-connecting calls, one-way audio, non-working DTMF," said Marc Blanchet, president of Viagenie.

"Asterisk-IPv6 solves all these issues and also brings, together with IPv6, true IP mobility, security and autoconfiguration of VoIPv6 phones."

Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum president, added: "The IPv6 Forum and its IPv6 Ready Program are adding SIP into its test suite to promote SIP and IPv6 interoperability worldwide. This is another major milestone in demonstrating true end to end services."

Posted on: 2007-03-08, in: Telephony technology

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