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 > > -- > Name: Terry D. Cudney > Phone: (705) 812-4949 > SIP: [email protected] > E-mail: [email protected] > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... > having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
