[Asterisk-Dev] Re: A crazy idea... Skype channel in Asterisk

[Olle E. Johansson]

Chris Lee wrote:

> Reinhard Max wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 at 15:38, Chris Lee wrote:
>>
>>
>>> so what I was suggesting was a peer-to-peer fabric that can help
>>> with the membership, naming and call receipt issues so that IAX
>>> could pick up some of the ease of use provided by the supernodes.
>>
>>
>>
>> I think you are asking for IAXtel:
>> http://www.iaxtel.com

> This relies on a iaxtel.com (digium), rather than the fact there are a 
> lot of other users out there with the peer to peer software installed.
> For functionality iaxtel will do fine, but for scalability and provision 
> of these services to the numbers involved with Skype (what they claim) a 
> true peer to peer system would allow users to proliferate the system 
> sharing the burden of providing services.

IAX does transfer the call to a peer-to-peer call after call setup.
So IAXtel works as a peer-to-peer fabric. If you call me over IAXtel,
the media stream will go from your server to mine, providing your
server isn't behind nat.

IAX2 is surprisingly clever. Test it.

/Olle