Certainly, if that is something you want to accomplish. Personally, I have no interest in it as it does not suite the business requirements of my clients. They are far more comfortable taking along a small ATA and regular phone than having to have their laptops booted up to make phone calls. While there is definitly a market for that level of cross-communication its not for anyone. What about Teleo? Awesome sound quality!, what about MSN Messenger, its available on every Windows based system? There are those cases when you want to bridge a consumer product and times when you don't. The ease of getting Asterisk up and running, especially with the @Home package makes it compelling to a huge, very diverse group of people. Under the hood however, its is a full blown, business class PBX system. How many phone guys have been asked by their clients if their Toshiba PBX can talk to Skype? Well before you see the ability for Skype to talk directly to Asterisk, you will see major services begin to offer bridges to each other. Take FreeWorldDialup for example, they are putting in their Vonage and Packet8 bridges now. Down the road you may well see Skype and Teleo bridges, perhaps Broadvoice etc. Add to that DNS based phone numbers (or competing technologies) and before too long a Skype user can call an Asterisk box simply by bridging the networks. This is far more likely to happen short term then a skype-compliant codec for Asterisk. -Kerry
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remco Barende Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 2:34 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Is SKYPE a threat or should we dosomething(together) On Tue, 17 May 2005, Kerry Garrison wrote: > Skype is to Asterisk as Instant Messaging is to e-mail. Is e-mail > dead? Is IM a threat? Asterisk is a full featured PBX system, how does > this relate to a P2P messaging system? How many businesses will be > dropping their current phone service and having Skype accounts on > every desk? I am thinking......probably none. But for a company with an * PBX that would be able to receive skype calls or even to have an extension connected to a skype account would be a wonderful addition. It would connect the business world to the home users Too bad a reverse engineered version of the protocol isn't available yet for * _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
