On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert Citek wrote: >> Also, how does one do the equivalent of SkypeIn and SkypeOut with >> Ekiga? Looking on the website, but haven't found anything. > What you're really talking about is having a tel # on the pub > > tel network and being able to place calls out to the PTN. > > This is called a SIP Gateway. Apparently there's quite a few > > apps the provide SIP to Skype connectivity. > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Skype+Gateways > > I know all the info is a bit overwhelming, even for me, and I > > have a background in Telco/ISP level VOIP systems. It is a lot of lingo to digest.
> I've wanted to build an Asterisk box for many years and play > around w. all these neat FOSS VOIP apps. There is a couple all in one variants. http://www.trixbox.org/ There are dozens of these at http://www.rpath.org/ui/# There is a re-write of asterisk project called freeswitch which gets rid of the deadlock issues one developer found but the community would not allow to be fixed. > Apparently, Skype is working w. Asterisk on "Skype for Asterisk" > commerical offering. > > http://blogs.digium.com/2009/02/23/skype-for-asterisk-update/ > > If anyone is interested in all these, I would totally be into having > a "session" on building an Asterisk box and testing out the many > FOSS VOIP apps and services. > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
