kiax(1)

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 develop

ment 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 proto

col has gathered the attention among the VoIP users - the Inter

Asterisk eXchange, or IAX (TM), Protocol, used as a native commu

nication protocol between Asterisk PBX Servers. What is particu

larly good in it is that it requires only one UDP port per end

point 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 hin

dering 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 Fresh

tel (http://www.freshtel.net) or any other VoIP termination ser

vice like VoIPUser.org (http://www.voipuser.org) or PSTN Termina

tion 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

<danchev@spnet.net>, for the Debian project (but may be used by

others).

2005

KIAX(1)