More Information on the Asterisk Skype Channel Driver from someone on the users list

On Sep 25, 2008, at 11:06 AM, Steve Anness wrote:

So what a minute. They will charge us to use Skype with our Asterisk
servers? Yes, I think I shall move along.

Steve

I talked with both Skype and Digium today at Astricon for a while on this... it's actually going to be amazing. The license for Skype will be the same way you license g.729. So yes, it's not free... but you're only paying for in use channel capabilities... but think of the benefits... Skype will work just like let's say SIP or ZAP or IAX2 would in the dial plan... so you could have.... SKYPE\username registered as an extension... or ... even in a queue which I am really excited about. You could registered as many usernames as you want... and then have as many simultaneous calls as licenses... great for calling out and even really awesome for calling in. Plus, unlike regular skype, on the callin, you can have multiple channels. It's really very exciting.

Fred Posner
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