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Skype cancels Asterisk integration
- rdl 15y agoI wonder if they will see a huge spike in orders over the next 2 months... I am certainly more likely to buy it now, just in case I need it in the next 2 years.
- wizard_2 15y agoExcept you'll probably loose support sometime in the next few years and as soon as they consider it a burden or a threat they'll pull the plug on it. For hobby use it would be really cool for any business I'd stay far away from it.
- zdw 15y agoOther VoIP endpoint vendors have hacked around Skype quite a bit: http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_skypopen_Skype_Endpoint_and_Trunk http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_skypopen_Skype_Endpoint_... ... which is good until Skype starts trying to detect this kind of stuff.
- smhinsey 15y agoThis seems like as good a place as any to ask: I work at a company that's distributed all across the US and East Asia. We don't really have a coherent phone system. This isn't my area per se, but I'm curious to see what options are out there. What should I look at? Is Skype the way to go or are there better "corporate" options?
- brown 15y agoOur small company linked free open source Asterisk servers in US, Philippines, and India (10-100 people per location). It's doable, but has a significant learning curve. I'd recommend hiring a professional to help you set it up and train your IT staff. If you want to pay for a higher end option, Avaya is a common choice. They power many companies (including huge call centers) all over the world.
- hahainternet 15y agoIf you have moderate experience with Linux and can read manpages then you should have no real problem linking Asterisk servers between locations and setting up all common phone functions. Asterisk (and its derivatives) are really quite powerful and easy to use. We use it everywhere that the commercial systems fail (like having working SIP without paying tens of thousands in licenses)
- chopsueyar 15y agoWhat kind of hardware to you use (besides the boxes themselves)? Is everything a VOIP phone with an RJ-45 jack, or do you also use add-on cards and other telephony goodies?
- mdg 15y agoIf you want POTS, you get a telephony card from Digium. If all you want is VOIP, then you can use your box as-is. Might be outdated, but you TFoT2 is free: http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/ http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/
- nico 15y agoI have worked with Asterisk and would recommend using FreeSWITCH instead.
- jamesgeck0 15y agoI would not. Not yet, anyway. Configuration of Asterisk is significantly easier with the FreePBX GUI. The FreeSWITCH equivalent is 2600hz which, although prettier, is missing a number of features* and is more difficult to use in some ways. It's very promising, though. * I don't remember which features specifically, but I do remember being unable to completely replicate a moderately complex Asterisk setup in the 2600hz GUI. It might have been related to the AVR system.
- dschreiber_ 15y ago
- mindstab 15y agoAnyone else wonder if this has anything to do with Skype's recent acquisition by Microsoft?
- e1ven 15y agoThe title on Slashdot was "Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk", but I thought that was too speculative for HN. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2010222/Microsoft-Kills-Skype-For-Asterisk http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2010222/Microsoft-Ki...
- mickt 15y agoIt's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?
- Derbasti 15y agoI hope they realize that the 'killer app' part of Skype is the amount of people using it. If they kill platforms, they lose people. If they lose people, they kill Skype. Case in point: If they kill either the Mac client or the iOS client, they will lose me, and thus all my family. I hope they realize that.
- benwerd 15y agoActive Directory integration, mayhap?
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- trezor 15y agoI'm using Nimbuzz on my Android phone and it's fairly complete, bar Skype-support. I thought this was such a glaring omission, so I emailed them about it, wondering if it would be added. The response I got was that they previously did have Skype-support, but that Skype had a policy/TOS which banned use trough other/competing IM/VoIP services and that they had sent Nimbuzz a cease and decist letter. In the email response I got, I also got this link: http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2010/10/25/what-the-skypenimbuzz-breakup-means-to-you/ http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2010/10/25/what-the-skypenimbuzz-bre... So... If anything, Skype's hostility to open VoIP/SIP-based solutions started long before Microsoft's acquisition.
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- kurtsiegfried 15y agoSkype are probably just dropping support for the Asterisk specific plugin. They still have the standards based Skype for SIP (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/ http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/), which Asterisk should also be able to support via its own SIP support.
- xbryanx 15y agoI posted something on this a little bit ago. Seems to correlate with Microsoft's decision to revoke free access to their VXML studio product (and thus Skype purchase) - https://studio.tellme.com/ https://studio.tellme.com/
- braindead_in 15y agoUh-oh. What's next? The API?