[asterisk-users] asterisk and Skype - your experiences please

[randulo]

On 10/24/07, randulo <spamsucks2005 at gmail.com> wrote:
> From time to time, various ways of connecting asterisk SIP channels to
> skype has been discussed here. This Friday, one of the subjects of our
> weekly Voip Users Conference will be about trying to connect our
> asterisk pbx with Skype.
>
> I have no nexus with Skype, Paypal or Ebay. In fact, (Note for
> google:) I have had recent serious ID theft problems resulting in
> fraudulent sales that Ebay is not helping me resolve - I hate Ebay -
> Ebay does NOT seriously fight fraud, they sweep it under the rug.
>
> Still, many of us are interested in this asterisk-Skype connection.
> For me, the "big attraction" is that our customers, many of whom have
> travelers in hotels connected the *their* home offices via Skype could
> call in to our system free of LD charges. Good for the customer. For
> us it means I don't need a PC running Skype to get that call, I can be
> on vacation with no computers on and get that Skype call on a $60
> Chinese IAX2 phone (or even a regular phone) and have our CDR note the
> time and length of the call.
>
> I would really like to hear from someone has who *successfully and
> satisfactorily* connected to Skype and continues to do so in a
> business setting.
>
> Please consider joining the Voip Users Conference to tell your story:
>
> http://VoipUsersConference.org
>
> Fridays at 12:30 Eastern Time in the USA. Any links to full accounts
> and stories of successful ploys to use skype and asterisk together
> (other than the obviously googleable) are welcome here of course, tia.
>
> There are other reasons to join the VOIP Users Conference such as the
> great core group of people we have with us from Digium, Voicepulse,
> IPKall, Trixbox, Lumnevox and the users community in general.
>
> Regards,
>
> Randy
>