Google Talk Jabbers A Jingle

By David A. Utter
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2005-12-15

Specifications created by Google and Jabber for carrying VoIP and video will be released as an open set of extensions to the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP).

Two specifications published by the Jabber Software Foundation with Google's support will enable applications like Google Talk to carry VoIP and other multimedia traffic, the Foundation announced on its site today.

The new documentation for the extensions, called Jingle, describe the technology for communicating through firewalls, and for enabling VoIP between users of Jabber-compatible clients. Both specs were authored by engineers from the JSF and Google.

The VoIP spec comes in the wake of Microsoft's announcement on Monday that it will partner with MCI to offer VoIP through the next version of its IM client, Windows Live Messenger. AOL has a VoIP product, TotalTalk, while Yahoo disclosed recently it would enter the field too.

"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," Peter Saint-Andre, Executive Director of the Jabber Software Foundation and co-author of the Jingle specifications, said in a statement.

"Jingle is an important piece of the puzzle for our enterprise and service provider customers," Jabber CTO & Jingle co-author Joe Hildebrand added.

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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business.