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#real-time-communication

Best open-source real-time communication servers and SIP switches (2026)

This software relays audio, video and signaling between browsers, phones and servers. When choosing, look at whether you need a WebRTC media server, a SIP signaling and telephony stack, or a messaging server, and check the license against how you plan to use it. Janus Gateway is a general-purpose WebRTC media server written in C, with plugins for conferencing, streaming and SIP gateways. Galene is a self-hosted videoconferencing server written in Go with a browser-based client. FreeSWITCH turns commodity hardware into a SIP/VoIP switch, from Raspberry Pi to multi-core servers.

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