[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk compare with Skype

[Steven Critchfield]

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>