It's still available for testing, but it's not getting much use.

To my knowledge, you're correct, silk is simply a codec that can be
carried over any old RTP stream, and it's a matter of endpoints
supporting it, or transcoding to G722 for it to be useful.

Cheers,
spd

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Terry D. Cudney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   Reading about skype - asterisk and skype - freeswitch leaves me wondering 
> about the various levels of interaction/compatibility. Maybe someone here can 
> explain it for us.
>
>   This is how I understand it. (Please turn your flame-throwers down to 
> "warm" and use them sparingly.) Please corect me and or expand on it as 
> appropriate:
>
>   SILK is the skype codec for higher bandwidth, higher fidelity 
> communications that has recently been made publicly available.
>
>   Can SILK be carried over SIP(or IAX)/RTP connections? like g711/g729/etc? 
> or is there some other protocol requirement that ties SIL to the skype code?
>
>   If SILK can be used as just-another-codec with SIP(IAX)/RTP, then it could 
> provide higher fidelity than the other codecs currently being used with 
> asterisk/freeswitch, right?
>
>   Connectivity with skype end-points is a different issue which will require 
> integration of skype protocols (at least via their API) with 
> asterisk/freeswitch.
>
>   From links followed from Wes's posting yesterday, it looks like work is 
> underway to bring about this integration.
>
>   The TAUG beta of Skype for Asterisk is an example of this coming 
> integration, right.
>
>   I do not have skype, but it looks like it'd be worth checking out. Simon, 
> how has the TAUG beta been doing? Is it still available for testing?
>
>   Thanks to all who can add to /correct these ramblings,
>
>   --terry
>
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