Recon Overview

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[edit] Overview

[edit] What is recon?

recon (Conversation Manager) is a SIP User Agent API that allows conversations and participants to be created. Participants can then be placed into conversations. Recon could be used to create the following types of applications:

In general all participants belonging to the same conversation can be heard and can hear each other. A participants contribution level to a particular conversation can be modified such that they appear quiter or louder to other participants.

There are three types of participants:

  1. Local participant - this participant type consists of the default local speaker and microphone of the computer that is running recon. Local participants are always only explicitly destroyed. Each application should only have one local participant created at startup time. This paricipant can be moved between/added to conversations as desired.
  2. Media participant - this participant type consists of an audio file, audio stream, or a tone being played out. Media participants are destroyed when the file is complete or when explicitly destroyed.
  3. Remote Participant - this participant type uses audio from an external source. The current implementation uses SIP to create/connect to remote participants. Remote participants are destroyed by the API user, or a "hangup" signal from the remote party.

A typical phone conversation consists of 3 components:

recon currently uses the sipXtapi project as the RTP/codec/mixing library. It is responsible for processing incoming RTP packets to and from the reflow layer. The reflow project is then used to send RTP packets to the network. See the What is reflow? and What is sipXtapi? sections for information on these two projects.


[edit] What is reflow?

The flow manager is a layer that faciltates the flow of media to/from a media based application. It is responsible for any NAT traversal logic, and will eventually implement ICE as a NAT traversal solution. reflow uses the reTurn project for NAT traversal. The flow manager also implements SRTP encryption of RTP packets, and is capable of sending media via:

For more details check out:


[edit] What is sipXtapi?

recon uses only the media framework portion of the LGPL licensed sipXtapi open source project. sipXtapi is full SIP User Agent SDK. It consists of a number of underlying libraries, that include a media framework, called sipXmediaLib that is capable, amougst other tasks, of the following:

recon uses the sipXmediaAdapterLib, sipXmediaLib, sipXportLib, and sipXsdpLib projects to add the above capabilites.

For more details check out:

To view source code:


[edit] Initial Project Team


[edit] Key Features


[edit] Upcoming Features


[edit] How to Participate


[edit] Project Details

[edit] Working with recon


[edit] Current External Library Usage


[edit] Licensing

recon is distributed under a standard 3-clause BSD license: 

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