Skype cancels Asterisk integration

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by e1ven • 15 years ago

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rdl• 15 years ago

I wonder if they will see a huge spike in orders over the next 2 months... I am certainly more likely to buy it now, just in case I need it in the next 2 years.

wizard_2• 15 years ago

Except you'll probably loose support sometime in the next few years and as soon as they consider it a burden or a threat they'll pull the plug on it. For hobby use it would be really cool for any business I'd stay far away from it.

zdw• 15 years ago

Other VoIP endpoint vendors have hacked around Skype quite a bit:

http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Mod_skypopen_Skype_Endpoint_...

... which is good until Skype starts trying to detect this kind of stuff.

smhinsey• 15 years ago

This seems like as good a place as any to ask: I work at a company that's distributed all across the US and East Asia. We don't really have a coherent phone system. This isn't my area per se, but I'm curious to see what options are out there. What should I look at? Is Skype the way to go or are there better "corporate" options?

brown• 15 years ago

Our small company linked free open source Asterisk servers in US, Philippines, and India (10-100 people per location). It's doable, but has a significant learning curve. I'd recommend hiring a professional to help you set it up and train your IT staff.

If you want to pay for a higher end option, Avaya is a common choice. They power many companies (including huge call centers) all over the world.

hahainternet• 15 years ago

If you have moderate experience with Linux and can read manpages then you should have no real problem linking Asterisk servers between locations and setting up all common phone functions.

Asterisk (and its derivatives) are really quite powerful and easy to use. We use it everywhere that the commercial systems fail (like having working SIP without paying tens of thousands in licenses)

mindstab• 15 years ago

Anyone else wonder if this has anything to do with Skype's recent acquisition by Microsoft?

e1ven• 15 years ago

The title on Slashdot was "Microsoft Kills Skype For Asterisk", but I thought that was too speculative for HN.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/24/2010222/Microsoft-Ki...

mickt• 15 years ago

It's the first thing I thought of, and it could be a clue as to where MS may lead Skype. Are they going to come out with some killer VOIP app for Windows 7 mobiles phones that will cause us all to drop our iPhones & 'droids?

benwerd• 15 years ago

Active Directory integration, mayhap?

trezor• 15 years ago

I'm using Nimbuzz on my Android phone and it's fairly complete, bar Skype-support. I thought this was such a glaring omission, so I emailed them about it, wondering if it would be added.

The response I got was that they previously did have Skype-support, but that Skype had a policy/TOS which banned use trough other/competing IM/VoIP services and that they had sent Nimbuzz a cease and decist letter.

In the email response I got, I also got this link: http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2010/10/25/what-the-skypenimbuzz-bre...

So... If anything, Skype's hostility to open VoIP/SIP-based solutions started long before Microsoft's acquisition.

kurtsiegfried• 15 years ago

Skype are probably just dropping support for the Asterisk specific plugin. They still have the standards based Skype for SIP (http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/business/skype-connect/), which Asterisk should also be able to support via its own SIP support.

xbryanx• 15 years ago

I posted something on this a little bit ago. Seems to correlate with Microsoft's decision to revoke free access to their VXML studio product (and thus Skype purchase) - https://studio.tellme.com/

braindead_in• 15 years ago

Uh-oh. What's next? The API?

Skype cancels Asterisk integration

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