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<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Al,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think you do not
want to put Skype on an Asterisk box. Asterisk is a server. Skype is a
client. It uses a peer-to-peer protocol stack, based on the same peer
stack as is Limewire and other mp3 downloading peers. So it is more akin
to a softphone program like XLite except that it uses the peer-to-peer protocol
with an mp3 codec instead of sip or IAX with some telephony codec. Skype
clients log into Skype servers out there that perform a function similar to
DUNDI and a SIP server in that they register their availablity and the
availablity of clients in your Skype phonebook. But those Skype servers
are run by Skype and I do not think they are in a distributed
architecture. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial
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<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial size=2>So if your client
wants to use Skype install the Skype client software on his desktops. It
does not need to hit the Asterisk box and has several methods of getting through
the firewall. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=160512919-26122006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please correct me if
I am wrong.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-no-proof: yes">Nick
Stein</SPAN></st1:PersonName></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>