SIPTAPI
Ever wondered why it's not possible to dial a phone call from a Windows application using your VoIP Account? So did we, and we solved the problem: Download and install SIPTAPI to initiate calls from your favorite TAPI application (e.g. MS Outlook or CRM applications).
Problems with SIPTAPI? --> SIPTAPI Support
About SIPTAPI
SIPTAPI is a TAPI Service Provider (TSP) for MS Windows. SIPTAPI enables you to initiate phone calls from TAPI applications (like MS Outlook) via your SIP PBX or with common SIP VoIP phones.
SIPTAPI itself is not a complete SIP phone, but acts as a "3rd Party Call Controller" on your SIP devices, instructing them to call the desired phone number. See the following figure for details:
SIPTAPI Versions
SIPTAPI comes in 2 flavors, either as "free" or as "commercial" version. The free version supports a single line only. The commercial version supports multiple lines and thus is suitable for Windows terminal servers. Furthermore, the commercial version supports inbound call indication.
| Free SIPTAPI | Commercial SIPTAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of SIP lines | 1 | 40+ |
| Support for terminal server | nein | ja |
| Inbound call indication | nein | ja |
| Source code & project files | ja | ja |
| Screenshot of the configuration dialog | Screenshot | Screenshot |
You can download the free SIPTAPI from the Sourceforge project website (see link on top of this page). Please contact us for information about the commercial SIPTAPI.
Compatibility
Supported operating systems (32bit and 64bit):
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Server 2008
SIPTAPI should be compatible with every SIP-conform device that supports call transfers (REFER method). SIPTAPI is sucessfully tested with:
SIPTAPI should be compatible with every TAPI application. SIPTAPI is known to work with:
- MS Outlook 2003 und 2008
- Windows Phone Dialer (dialer.exe)
- Phoner
- CAO Faktura
- Grutzeck's Overdialer
- com(organize)
Documentation and Support
SIPTAPI comes with an installation manual and a tutorial which describes the details of SIPTAPI.
See SIPTAPI Support for details how to debug your problems.
License
SIPTAPI is open source, licensed under GPL version 2.
Development
SIPTAPI is open source. Thus, feel free to download the source code and add new features yourself. The source code is hosted in the SVN Repository at Sourceforge.
Please see SIPTAPI.txt how to build SIPTAPI yourself.
If you need extensions for SIPTAPI but do not have the time or resources yourself we're happy to implement your feature requests time & material basis. For further information and pricing, please contact klaus.darilion (at) ipcom.at with a description of the required work.