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[deadalnix]

On Tuesday, 7 May 2013 at 09:05:50 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> For voice conferences with large amount of participants (20+) 
> usually stuff like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and Mumble is used. It 
> requires some special approach - for example, it is possible to 
> setup SIP voice conference but because of SIP architecture it 
> simply won't scale well for large amount of participants. And 
> XMPPP/Jingle support for conferences is still 
> experimental/work-in-progress.
>
> For video conferences I am not aware of any free solution with 
> better capability than Google Hangouts. It is quite a 
> challenging task actually.

As a side note, SIP is a signaling protocol. It isn't sufficient 
itself to do this kind of stuff and can also be used to do 
something completely differently. It is only useful to connect 
stream of data.

Nothing in SIP itself make it inadequate here, but the usual 
toolchain that contains SIP is.