No version of Skype for Solaris. Skype 1.4 is available for Linux. The
Linux version supports Video now too. I imagine you couldn't do video
from a Sunray though unless you could somehow use an IP Camera. I think
Skype on Linux uses ALSA so there may be sound problems if you ran the
Linux version on the SRSS. I don't know for sure (For some reason I'm
thinking Sunrays use OSS for Audio, but I could be wrong and probably
am). I've never tried using it in conjuction with a Sunray. We run our
Sunrays on Solaris so not an option really.
I'm currently tasked with researching ways to allow our users to use
Skype. All of our users have a Sunray and a desk phone. I'm looking at
products like Vosky, Skip2pbx, SkyStone to get Skype to work using our
existing phones and PBX. I'm leaning more towards the Linux based
Skip2pbx solution myself.
I'm also looking at SIP trunking too. On the SIP Softphone vs Skype
Software front, I have had limited success on a Sunray. I loaded up an
Asterisk vmware image on my Mac and ran SIP Communicator from a Sunray.
I was able to get SIP Communicator to work from a Sunray, connect to the
Asterisk server, audio, etc. Well, I was able to get my mic to work from
a Sunray 1G but on a Sunray 2FS, the mic didn't work. Could of just been
the cheap mic I was using I suppose. In theory though it would just be a
matter of connecting the Asterisk server to an SIP trunking provider and
you'd have VoIP from a Sunray. SIP Communicator worked pretty well, but
I think it's still Alpha so I wasn't really comfortable going that route
and I wasn't able to find other SIP Softphones that worked on Solaris 10.
Not really sure I'm comfortable using softphones either. I think it may
confuse my users more than necessary. I could be underestimating my
users though. The only real advantage I can see to softphone is if you
can click on phone number on webpage or in your address book, and the
softphone dials the number for you. Now if you didn't already have hard
phones, then price would be another advantage of softphones. Also in a
huge call center, a softphone means one less piece of hardware you need
to worry about.
Anyway that's what I know. I'd like to hear if anyone else has a better
solution though.
Aaron
paola rubio wrote:
Hi, I have a question related with sunrays with solaris or linux both
are ok but we have a customer tha use as corporate messenger "Skype"
and they are very interesting in the sunray solution to aply it in a
call center.
Do you have any experiense with this?? (I mean skype over Solaris or
Linux)
Thanks in advance for your help
Paola Rubio
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