Skype, SIP: not strangers anymore
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One thing is sure: Skype is a mass voice client. Friendly/cozy design and bright colors. On the contrary, SIP-based voice clients struggle to reach the consumer market, as only companies and techies know how to configure them.
So combining SIP and Skype calls might rapidly become the new Holy Grail of VoIP device manufacturers. It’s like rolling out the ultimate telecoms artifact. And the convergence has already started:
Motorola, first. Another personal hub, Home wireless Hub 1620. It shows a SIP adapter and two USB ports ― one USB 2, one USB 1.1 slave connection. Users will just have to plug and call with the USB phones.
Canadian phone company Pika has developed a technical solution to combine Skype and an Asterisk server. Alec Saunder has a write-up on it: “What I saw was a Skype user ID routing calls into Asterisk, to IVRs, ordinary Asterisk extensions, conference rooms and so on. What that means is that businesses running Asterisk (think EBay sellers), can publish a Skype ID as well as an ordinary phone number, and Skype users will come in through the standard phone system — CRM and all.”
At Computex 2006, a hi-tech product exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, Nortel BCM showcased a multi-format VoIP phone powered by Windows CE kernel. The WLAN800 has just to find a WiFi broadband access point and then can work with Skype, Windows Live Messenger and other SIP voice clients.
Jun 12, 2006 | By Nuno
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