CommuniGate Pro

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CommuniGate Pro
Developer(s)CommuniGate Systems Russia AO StalkerSoft
Initial releaseFebruary 2, 1998; 26 years ago (1998-02-02)[1]
Stable release
6.3.16 / December 7, 2022; 16 months ago (2022-12-07)[citation needed]
VoIP server, WebRTC server
Licenseproprietary
Websitewww.communigate.ru

CommuniGate Pro (CGatePro) is a highly scalable carrier grade unified communications server, as well as a development platform. The system is Internet Protocol based. The server is a single process, multi-threaded application written entirely in C++. APIs are available for authentication, helper applications and directory services.

Features

CommuniGate Pro provides

application programming interfaces are also available.[3]

CommuniGate Pro integrates with

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) cryptographic protocols.[5]

Email

CommuniGate Pro includes

Anti-virus protection is available via extra modules, sold separately.[3]

Collaboration

Since version 5 CommuniGate Pro includes

screen and file sharing.[3][5]

Starting with version 5.1 CommuniGate Pro includes its own

HTTP- and XML-based client interface to a complex of communications services provided by one server.[4]
Although the protocol is not bound to CommuniGate Pro, its scope is derived from the parent project's functionality; so far no other XIMSS servers were announced.

Since version 5.1 Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) is also supported.[4]

Distribution model

CommuniGate Pro is available as a free download, although after adding more than five users, it adds a one-line banner to the outbound messages.

Tru64, HP-UX and UnixWare
.

Connecters may be installed onto clients directly from deployed server and support automatic update feature.[5]

Reception

In their generally positive reviews,

ZDNet, Aaron Weiss of ServerWatch and Michael Caton of eWeek praised CommuniGate Pro for its scalability, set of features and high configurability, while criticising it for high price and complexity.[2][3][5] Aaron Weiss notes: "CommuniGate Pro is extremely configurable. It wants to be configured. It begs for it. This is a hard-core enterprise server product likely to intimidate point-and-click administrators but happily curl every tech monkey's tail."[3]

Criminal case

The programmer who developed CommuniGate Pro, Vladimir Butenko, died in 2018. Authorship and exclusive rights were registered in the USA, and in 2015 a certificate from Rospatent was added to them. In 2021, his daughter Anna Butenko filed a statement with the prosecutor’s office, accusing the management of the program owner, StalkerSoft, of copyright theft. In 2022, three top managers were indicted. In January 2024, the court stopped hearings on this case and returned it to the prosecutor's office for revision.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Version 1.x Revision History", CommuniGate, retrieved June 5, 2014[permanent dead link]
  2. ^
    ZDNet
    , retrieved June 5, 2014
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Weiss, Aaron (December 28, 2005), "Communicate Like the Pros", ServerWatch, archived from the original on June 6, 2014, retrieved June 5, 2014
  4. ^ a b c "CommuniGate Pro product guide", CommuniGate Pro, retrieved June 5, 2014
  5. ^ a b c d e Caton, Michael (August 15, 2005), "Review: CommuniGate Pro Real-Time Collaboration 4.3", eWeek, p. 2, retrieved June 5, 2014[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "Download the Latest Versions", communigate.com, retrieved March 5, 2021
  7. ^ "Программу отправили к экспертам". Kommersant (in Russian). January 22, 2024.
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