BambaPhone

Name:

BambaPhone

Version:

(4/1997)

Description:

BambaPhone is a video phone for two-way, real time communication over the Internet or any LAN using the TCP/IP protocol. BambaPhone automatically negotiates the compression technique appropriate to a connection bandwidth making video conferencing possible over dial-up 28.8kbps modem links and LAN based connections to the Internet or an intranet.

BambaPhone code conforms to H.323 Multimedia Conferencing recommendations for LANs and the Internet. However, the current implementation is not fully compliant with H.323 and will not interoperate with any other video phones. BambaPhone includes modular components for call setup, multimedia control, and video and audio support. The BambaPhone was written to the high-level APIs of these components.

BambaPhone is part of the Bamba suite of research technology demonstrations which includes Web browser plug-ins for audio and video streaming. The Bamba plug-ins are also available on alphaWorks.

Organization:

IBM Research

WWW:

IBM AlphaWorks

Audio encodings:

Video encodings:

Network:

IP multicast/unicast

Platforms:

Windows'95

RTP Status:

RFC 1889, RFC 1890, H.323 (partial)

Availability:

beta

Download:

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