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Episode: SIP/Element: Unifying Telephony and Modern Communication (matrix-conf-2025)
Description: Our project's main goal was to fill a gap by developing a telephony bridge that natively integrates XiVO enterprise telephony (based on SIP) within the alternative and open-source Matrix/Element ecosystem. Our focus with this bridge is to offer a credible and high-performing alternative to dominant proprietary solutions, such as Teams and its "Telephony System" licenses.
XiVO SIP bridge project presented a significant development challenge, underscoring its disruptive and creative nature. This wasn't a simple assembly of existing technologies, but an engineering effort to bridge two fundamentally different protocols: WebRTC used by Matrix ecosystem and SIP from the IP telephony...