MVB/ Smb whats a good generic soft phone app

[Teck900]

we are currently proposing a MVB/SMB for a client He needs a soft phone app for 2 users.  to add micolab and stuff will kill the deal on price

Is there a softphone app that anybody has found to be easy and reliable? 

plus will we be able to have it connect remotely with sip port forwarding through the firewall?

[lundah]

I've used MicroSIP before on site, never connected it remotely through a firewall.

[acejavelin]

Unfortunately, without an MBG or a VPN back to the site, it won't work... the MiVB doesn't support any kind of NAT translation.

[bojo387]

I've used MicroSIP before on site, never connected it remotely through a firewall.

I also use microsip a lot for testing. But it was always through the MBG or VPN remotely. I reckon as long as the Firewall is SIP aware, then it could work.

[Teck900]

looked for Microsip in the iphone app store and couldn't find it.  does it go by a different name ?

[johnp]

I use Phoner lite, as a test phone. SMB could or should have the MBG

[bojo387]

looked for Microsip in the iphone app store and couldn't find it.  does it go by a different name ?

try microsip(dot)org in the URL.

[acejavelin]

If we are going to ignore the fact the Mitel cannot do or support NAT translation and hope the SIP ALG of the firewall handles it, I highly suggest Bria Solo softphone... We use it with Mitel, ESI, and Broadsoft hosted platforms and it works very well. You can try it for free, but it is not free for normal use but is well worth the $30/year cost as it stores all it's config in the cloud... All the user needs to know for any platform (mobile, PC, tablet, etc) is their login to the Bria website and the rest is handled automatically.

[lundah]

looked for Microsip in the iphone app store and couldn't find it.  does it go by a different name ?

You never mentioned what device. MicroSIP is a PC softphone. I don't have any experience with any iOS softphones other than MiCollab.

[lundah]

If we are going to ignore the fact the Mitel cannot do or support NAT translation and hope the SIP ALG of the firewall handles it, I highly suggest Bria Solo softphone... We use it with Mitel, ESI, and Broadsoft hosted platforms and it works very well. You can try it for free, but it is not free for normal use but is well worth the $30/year cost as it stores all it's config in the cloud... All the user needs to know for any platform (mobile, PC, tablet, etc) is their login to the Bria website and the rest is handled automatically.

The SMB controller has a built in MBG, which could be used as a gateway for the remote SIP clients. A little bit more work to set up the client devices manually, and you'd still need the Teleworker licenses, but yeah it's cheaper than bringing full-blown MiCollab into the picture.

[Teck900]

Thanks Guys,  I got in touch with a mitel engineer who sent me an article for using Bria mobile sip app.  so far I have it working inside network now i just need some time to get it working through MBG.  I hope I can just direct the sip app to the public ip and wont have to set up dns forwarding

[bojo387]

looked for Microsip in the iphone app store and couldn't find it.  does it go by a different name ?

You never mentioned what device. MicroSIP is a PC softphone. I don't have any experience with any iOS softphones other than MiCollab.

I can't believe I read passed the "iphone app store"... Thanks for your response, @lundah.

@Teck900, for mobile, some of those my colleagues have used for testing are Bria, Session Talk, Zoiper, Linphone...