Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine

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Yate is a softswitch (concept of separating the network hardware from network software).

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Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine was added to AlternativeTo by valentt on Jun 7, 2011 and this page was last updated Apr 7, 2025. Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine is sometimes referred to as Yate.

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What is Yate - Yet Another Telephony Engine?

Yate is a softswitch (concept of separating the network hardware from network software).

It supports VoIP protocols: H.323, SIP, IAX1, IAX2, RTP. For the plain old telephony systems (PSTN) it supports ISDN BRI and PRI. Is compatibile with EuroISDN, National ISDN, Lucent 5E, Nortel DMS-100, NI-2.

Yate can be used for:

VoIP (SIP, H323, IAX) - PSTN gateways
PC2Phone prepaid or postpaid calling systems
Calling card applications
Call centers

The software is written in C++ and it supports scripting in various programming languages. YATE's license is GPL with an exception for linking with OpenH323 and PWlib (licensed under MPL).