[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk compare with Skype

[Sys Admin]

"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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