[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk compare with Skype

[Kris Edwards]

I don't get this thread..  Skype is much closer to gaim than it is to
asterisk (voice-gaim or whatever... gaim/w sip).  I hope I'm not talking
out of turn because admittedly I have little exerience with skype.  In
fact, my only experience has been calling other skype users.  How does
skype do with inbound calls?  Where does it put my voicemails?  How hard
is it to create a sophisticated dialplan?? Or even a simple dial plan?
Like, if I just want two mailboxes, is that possible with skype?  If
not, then I don't get what is being compared.

Sys Admin wrote:
> "You think way to small." :(
> 
> 
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 15:55:54 -0600, Steven Critchfield
> <critch at basesys.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:18 -0800, Sys Admin wrote:
>>
>>>if some one was to create a open source IAX client as good/better then
>>>skype, even then a asterisk IAX based network will not be able to
>>>compete with skype. Since asterix is a centralized server regitration
>>>network it can not grow as big as a skype P2P network can grow,
>>
>>You think way to small. You don't have to be centralized with asterisk.
>>Administration of a secure network is easier being centralized, but you
>>could easily run several asterisk machines in a network much like IRC
>>is. A few or even several asterisk boxes peered to each other to know
>>who is where and the users spread over the many asterisk machines. With
>>IAX attempting to handoff calls if possible, it is possible to create
>>true P2P calls as well as routed calls to handle NAT or anything else.
>>--
>>Steven Critchfield <critch at basesys.com>
>>
>>
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