Where skype has cornered the market is thier ablity to skype out to<br>the normal pots telephone systems (ss7).<br><br>I remember seeing an interview years ago with the skype masters,<br>they we're putting equipment in at every telco exchange they could<br>find, and then undercutting the telco on international calls.<br><br>Good Idea, but highly proprietary , no source code, and with the<br>ablity to become a super node (routing thousands of calls), then<br>running on high bandwidth networks is a no no.<br><br>A Jabber voice to asterix gateway migh be a winner, than I can <br>skype out!<br><br>Like all this technology, it pushed data transfer to the edge of the network<br>(your computer) , rather than keeping it the core, that's not an efficient<br>means of data distribution, but a damm sight cheap than renting rack space<br>at a peering point.<br><br>I see tiscali have just advertised 8megs internet connections....<br>beware....and do some research before
buying.<br><br><br><b><i>Arron M Finnon <afinnon@googlemail.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> But i do think Jabber supports Voice, and the likes. So i suppose the<br>question is what do you need skype to do on jabber, and then look at if<br>skype is the best solution.<br><br>You may find that by looking at the problem or rather the overall<br>outcomes of what your wanting to achieve, first. Then looking at<br>software that can do the job, you may stumble across a better solution<br>in the end.<br><br>I've been inspired somewhat by Big Andrews Jabber talk on thursday, an<br>i've spent the weekend moving everything over. Have MSN, Gtalk,<br>Twitter, Freenode.Net IRC all working through the same account.<br><br>So i'm interested in the outcomes of if you can Skype, well not skype,<br>but rather SIP, VoiP over jabber/xmpp <br><br>What a cool technology
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