Introduction¶

Spectrum is an XMPP transport/gateway. It allows XMPP users to communicate with their friends who are using one of the supported legacy networks. Spectrum is written in C++ and uses the gloox XMPP library and libpurple for "legacy networks". Spectrum is open source and released under the GNU GPL.

Supported networks¶

Spectrum supports a wide range of different networks such as ICQ, XMPP (Jabber, GTalk), AIM, MSN, Facebook, Twitter, Gadu-Gadu, IRC and SIMPLE.

Performance¶

In comparison with other gateways, Spectrum can handle more users with fewer resources. We are aware of installations where Spectrum handles more than a thousand concurrent connections flawlessly.