The Mizu-WebPhone is a lightweight standard based VOIP phone that can be run even from webpages. Based on the industry standard SIP protocol, it is compatible with all VOIP devices and services. It can call any other SIP soft phone (for free charge) or any landline or mobile number via a VOIP service provider of your choice.
The phone is implemented as a java applet/application and it is completely independent platform running on webpages, windows desktop, MAC, Linux, Solaris and mobile devices.
It can be used as a normal softphone running on your website or as Skype-like buttons (Click to Call).
Compared to Skype buttons it has 3 main advantages:
- based on standard SIP protocol. This means more control, and you can change your phone service provider whenever you want. There are plenty VOIP providers offering free services too.
- no client side applications have to be installed. If the browser supports java than the phone will run "from the web"
- it is compatible with any VOIP service provider or for more control, you can use your own VOIP server (there are several free open source servers like Asterisk, or you can buy a cheap VOIP server with support)
The called person can accept the call on a VOIP device (soft phone, IP phone, call-center application) or can be contacted directly on their landline or mobile phone numbers. All usual call routing features can be enabled (call forward, call transfer, etc)
With Mizu-WebPhone you can quickly add VOIP capabilities on your website. For example:
- VOIP service providers can deploy the webphone on their webpages allowing customers to initiate SIP calls without the need of any other equipment directly from their webbrowesers
- VOIP enabled support pages when people can call your support people from your website.
- VOIP enabled forums when members can call each other
- VOIP enabled blogs
- VOIP enabled sales when customers can call agents
The rest is up to your imagination.
Demonstrations:
The simplest way to try the service is to download MizuPhone (or any other softphone) and register to domain 195.70.36.43:5078 with username testuser102, password testpwd102. Than you can call yourself from the web with the WebPhone. If you would like to see calls going to PSTN (mobile/landline numbers) then please contact us and we will give you an account which has enough credit for some test calls.
The public internet phone is the best way to try and experiment with our webphone technology
Try it from here. It is free.
When you click on the "Call me" button, a call will start immediately to “testuser102”. Be sure that you are already logged in as testuser102 (with a sip phone) for the call to be able to reach you.
On your webpage the design of the buttons is up to you. The availability of the users (with different buttons) can be loaded from a database.
This is a demo application that is able to call any VOIP, mobile or PSTN number. Some features are disabled in this demo. Click the button below to launch the webphone.
Features:
- SIP and RTP stack (compatibile with standard VOIP servers like Cisco or Asterix)
- standard java applet (no installation required. runs directly from browsers)
- standard G711 codec’s (PCMU and PCMA) and speex narrowband
- DTMF (INFO method in signaling)
- basic call features
- IM (chat) capability based on SIP SIMPLE protocol
- other VOIP related features are coming soon (IM/chat, call forward/transfer/mute and more codec’s)
- encryption capability
Advantages over proper web based communication software’s:
Mizu WebPhone is based on SIP and can be integrated with any other standard VOIP server. In this way beside to make calls between your users you have the possibility to make real calls to any landline or mobile phone.
There are several free VOIP server that you can use for this purpose, for example Asterix or Mizu Softswitch.
Advantages over ActiveX solutions:
You can find many ActiveX web phone solution, but the time is over for ActiveX. These are simple executables (running only on windows) and because this they have a bad security reputations. Now it is a deprecated technology, and by default they are disabled in all browsers. In short: they are useless.
Advantages over Flash based solution.
VOIP calls can be made with flash, but it is a very inefficient and complicated solution. You have to install a separate flash media server for this and do the media and signaling conversion there, because flash doesn’t know VOIP protocols and doesn’t have standard codec’s. This is a very CPU intensive process with high failure rate.
That is why we created our java based unique solution. True VOIP calls from any webpage from now is an easy task that works!