Blink Pro for MacOSX

General

• Very simple to setup and use
• Support for multiple SIP accounts
• iCloud support for account syncing on multiple Blink instances
• Keychain support for password storage
• Built-in SIP account sign-up at http://sip2sip.info
• Handle TEL and SIP URLs clicked in other applications
• Detection of audio devices changes
• Voiceover accessibility support

Contacts Management

• Integration with MacOSX Address Book
• Corporate directory search (LDAP protocol)
• Server Storage support (XCAP protocol)
• Bonjour neigbour discovery (MDNS protocol)
• Automatic backups and easy restore

Audio Sessions

• G722, Speex, G711, GSM and iLBC codecs
• Answering machine with takeover support
• Multiple parallel calls
• In-band DTMF support
• Silent mode
• Call recording
• Call transfer
• Call waiting
• Mute microphone
• Message Waiting Indicator (MWI)
• NAT traversal using ICE
• Web page integration with caller information
• Displays RTP end-point information
• Displays codec, packet loss and RTT
• Telephone dialpad
• sRTP encryption

Multiparty Conferencing

Blink can conference audio calls locally, without the need for a server.

For more media types and advanced conferencing features, a proper SIP conference server with 'isfocus' support is required, for example SylkServer.

Blink supports the client side of the following conferencing features:

• Wideband Audio (G722 codec)
• Conference Information (conference-info event package)
• Add/remove Participants (out-of-dialog REFER method)
• Instant Messaging (MSRP chatroom support)
• File Transfers (MSRP file transfer support)
• Screen Sharing (using a private SylkServer extension for MSRP)

Dialing Out

• Support for SIP addresses and telephone numbers
• Strip unwanted characters from telephone numbers: (0) blocks, spaces, - and ()
• Replace leading + sign from phone numbers with a numeric prefix per account
• Custom prefix for outgoing calls to phone numbers
• Automatic DTMF sending after connect with # as delimiter
• Automatic account section for outgoing calls based on dial plans
• Automatic fail-over to next next-hop when available
• Redial for the last call

Accept/Reject Calls

• Automatic accept calls
• Displays the caller icon and name retrieved from Address Book
• Rejects calls with 486 Busy (other devices keep ringing) or 603 Decline (all devices stop ringing)
• Can accept partial offers when INVITE contains multiple streams
• Speech recognition for alert panel commands
• Speaks incoming caller name

Missed Calls

• History
• One click Dial from the History menu
• Growl notifications

Chat Sessions

• Based on MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
• Tabs for separate sessions and detachable windows
• Enable/disable emoticons per session
• Colored display of success and failure delivery report for each message
• Automatic accept chat sessions from known contacts
• Is-composing indication
• Automatic retransmission of last previously undelivered messages on re-connect
• CPIM envelope, text/plain and text/html (receive only) content
• Chat history
• Participants list drawer
• Growl notifications for unread messages

SMS

• Based on SIP MESSAGE method
• Growl notifications for unread messages
• Split tabs in separate windows
• Enable/disable emoticons
• Colored display of success and failure delivery report for each message
• Replication between multiple Blink instances

File Transfers

• Based on MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
• Drag and drop support
• Displays transfer speed and remaining time
• Automatic accept from known contacts
• NAT traversal using MSRP relay

Screen Sharing

• Based on VNC over MSRP protocol with TLS and relay support
• Can be combined with Audio and Chat sessions
• Multiparty screen sharing requires SylkServer

Logging

• SIP, DNS and MSRP protocol trace to file or window
• RTP statistics and ICE negotiation information

Presence

• Publish/Subscribe/Notify
• Policy Management
• RLS Services
• Offline status

Availability

Roadmap

Video

• VP8 and H.264

Availability

Roadmap