OpenH323 development is coordinated by an Australian company, Equivalence Pty Ltd, but is open to any interested party. Commercial and private use of the OpenH323 code, including use in commercial products and resale,  is enouraged through use of the MPL (Mozilla Public license).

"The aim is to `commodotise the protocol'. By giving the stack away, maybe we can stop everyone obsessing over how to format the bits on the wire, and get them writing applications instead."
Craig Southeren, co-founder of OpenH323, 1998

Introduction

See the FAQ for the aims and targets of this project and a general introduction. Join the mailing list, or download the code. If you want to develop code with OpenH323, then read on how to join the project, and what you will need. A public CVS archive of all OpenH323 code is also available

Here is a list of people and companies who have contributed resources and web space to OpenH323 as well as those working on associated projects. If can think of anyone who should be be listed here, please contact us at

We are compiling a list of H.323 clients and other H.323 applications. Please e-mail us if you have any additions or changes.

A new page showing how to configure the Quicknet GPL drivers has been added

The latest status report is available here, along with an archive of all status reports

The current version of the code, 1.1alpha1 is available, features are:

• Dynamic threshold algorithm for silence detection
• New GUI client (OpenPhone) for Windows.
• Command line client for Windows and Linux
• GSM full rate (06.10) and G.711 Codecs
• Quicknet xJack support (Linux and Win32 only)
• Voicetronics VPB4 card support (Win32 only)
• Jitter buffering
• Silence detection for GSM/G.711 codecs.
• H.261 video transmitter / receiver (Transmit not available on Win32 so far)
• Gatekeeper (RAS) client support
• FastConnect and H.245 tunnelling
• User indication messages.
• Shared libraries