Cisco Jabber vs Kamailio SIP Server comparison

Cisco and Kamailio are both solutions in the Unified Communications category. Cisco is ranked #6, while Kamailio is ranked #5. Cisco holds a 5.4% mindshare in UC, compared to Kamailio’s 9.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Kamailio users who would recommend it.

Cisco Jabber

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100% willing to recommend

Kamailio SIP Server

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100% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Cisco Jabber and Kamailio SIP Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Cisco Jabber

Ranking in Unified Communications

6th

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Kamailio SIP Server

Ranking in Unified Communications

5th

Average Rating

10.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Unified Communications category, the mindshare of Cisco Jabber is 5.4%, down from 9.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kamailio SIP Server is 9.6%, up from 9.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Unified Communications Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Kamailio SIP Server	9.6%
Cisco Jabber	5.4%
Other	85.0%

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reviewer912129

Senior Technical Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Stable, easy to set up, and works fine

Everyone in our company uses Cisco Jabber for phone calls and internal chat. We have around 1,000 users. For features like video conferences, schedules, and presentations, we use Microsoft Teams. It works fine feature-wise. The Cisco Jabber features that we use work okay. There are issues in…

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it_user183567

PHP Dev & Telecoms Engineer at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

The server itself does load balancing however building a fail-over for it is difficult

The server itself does load balancing however the most difficult thing I found was building a fail-over for it. However, if you want to build a fail-over for it that's the tricky part since most sip traffic is routed using UDP. There are plenty of amazing TCP load balancers out there such as HAProxy but none for UDP. You need to use something like Keepalive and fail-over IP and restart the server on fail-over

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Healthcare Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

University

10%

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Overview

Cisco Jabber instantly interacts with instant messaging (IM) and presence; IP Voice and Video Telephony; Mobile Collaboration-Anywhere on Any Device; Communicate within other Web Apps, and Microsoft Office.

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Kamailio is an Open Source SIP Server released under GPL, able to handle thousands of call setups per second. Kamailio can be used to build large platforms for VoIP and realtime communications Ð presence, WebRTC, Instant messaging and other applications. It can also easily be applied to scaling up SIP-to-PSTN gateways, PBX systems or media servers like Asterisk, FreeSWITCH or SEMS.

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Sample Customers

Odeabank, Eagle Investment Systems, Pella Corporation, The Republican National Convention, avodaqAG

Asipto, Crocodile RCS Ltd, Edvina AB, Evariste Systems LLC, OpenXg Inc., Sipwise GmbH, VoIP Embedded

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