H.323 Plus

H.323 Plus (or, "H323plus") is the home for open source ▲H.323 development. The site was created in an effort to help support and perpetuate the community atmosphere that had existed with the now defunct OpenH323 project.

H.323 is the leading protocol for ▲videoconferencing, with virtually every videoconferencing solution in the world using H.323 in order to establish voice and video communications. With its superior handling of video and conference control, no other protocol comes close to matching the capabilites of H.323 for video.

H.323 is an extremely important protocol for the ▲VoIP industry, with H.323 carrying nearly twice as much VoIP traffic in 2006 than all other VoIP protocols combined. While other protocols will increase in importance and new ones will come into the market every year, H.323 has firmly positioned itself in the market and continue so for many years.

We felt that the creation of this new site was important for two reasons. First, the OpenH323 web site has largely been ignored by the company that presently owns the domain, rarely making the important updates necessary to keep developers up-to-date. Second, we want to encourage and support the developer community to take a significant step forward in delivering the kinds of communication capabilities available to users and to do that on a single, fully open source software base.

The second point is really key. The H.323 Plus project intends to do much more than simply provide a new home for open source H.323 developers. Developers have said they intend to work to provide significant new enhancements to the very successful H.323 systems deployed worldwide. For example, NAT/FW traversal, instant messaging, presence, and many other enhancements are already in progress or being planned. Further, the open source community has expressed interest to enable more collaborative features to H.323, including such things as application sharing, whiteboarding, and other capabilities.

No matter where the open source developer community chooses to steer this project, they have the continued support of Packetizer and many other organizations and individuals. Packetizer will provide web space for source code, e-mail lists for discussing work on various projects, etc.

Welcome to the new home for open source H.323 development and the next phase in delivering the most complete, functional, and interoperable multimedia systems in the world.