Jabber Teams Up With Google Talk For VoIP

Jabber have announced a partnership with Google and other top companies to develop a set of extensions to the IETF’s Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) for use with VoIP, video and other media. The technology is called Jingle and has already been implemented in Google Talk, released in August 2005.

Google is playing a supporting role in the standardization of the protocols for Jingle Signalling and Jingle Audio. Jingle Signalling is the base technology allowing communication through firewalls. Jingle Audio enables VoIP calls between Jabber and XMPP users.

“Jingle provides a powerful framework for peer-to-peer multimedia sessions. Thanks to Google’s commitment to open standards, the Jabber community can now build a wide range of new applications, from voice and video to file sharing, gaming, application casting, shared editing, and whiteboarding,” said Peter Saint-Andre, an Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation and co-author of the Jingle specifications.