On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 10:47 -0400, Drew Gibson wrote: > Alex Balashov wrote: > > It may just be my profound ignorance of the merits of Skype, but I am > > not sure what the benefit here is or why it is desirable or beneficial. > > > > Although there may be technical benefits, I believe the greater benefit > is more on the marketing side. >
skype uses GIPS (global ip sound) for echo cancelation and all. That is a good system, but its not free. Googletalk also uses it in their client. The biggest merits is being able to call other skype users or have them call you. Many people want 1 service only and to have to use many different methods of contact frustrates them, they are also more likely to call if its free - something that skypeout isnt. Skype however seems to have an archilles heel for corporate uptake, which this seems to be at least in part to try to fix. Lets look at the ebay example that they have pushed at least once. Sellers on ebay can list skype contact info and be called by buyers. Ok sounds good but if you are a corporate ebay seller more than one person may answer the phone. This makes skype almost unusable in that situation. Now if you know the right people to talk to you can route calls to skype via sip+g729 to at least call their users, but they really try to hide this and dont advertise it. Skype also is rumored to be "secure" however the german police have raided people for publishing info on the trojan that the german government has, developed and uses to monitor skype calls (on the client machine not on the "skype network"). The german police dont like it when people reveal their secrets. Bundestrojan is the name. I dislike the way skype turns your box into a "supernode" and consumes your bandwidth all for the benefit of the ebay corporations, yes you can trick the skype client into not doing that, if you have sufficient control on the network to filter stuff, but its not something I would like, why should I as a paying customer have my network abused so the company can make more money? -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast +44 28 9099 6461 US +1 516 687 5200 http://www.trxtel.com the phone company that pays you! _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- AstriCon 2008 - September 22 - 25 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
