[Freeswitch-dev] Skype calls

[Giovanni Maruzzelli]

Muhammad,

Yes, I can confirm the behavior of the echo123 service. Only one  call
from each username.

For my massive tests, I use some tollfree PSTN number via skypeout
(you can do it also without buying credits).

-giovanni

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Muhammad
Shahzad<shaheryarkh at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I have bring up to 60 Skypiax channels, using 20 skype accounts, i.e. each
> skype account logged in three times. But only 20 of them were able to make
> call to skype echo test service, others got NO ANSWER. I am not sure of why
> this happened but may be skype echo service allows only one call per skype
> account regardless of how may instances are using this one account. Has
> anyone tried this with different results?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at celliax.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Michael Collins<msc at freeswitch.org>
>> wrote:
>> > I suppose it all goes back to the fact that each Skype call requires its
>> > own
>> > instance of the Skype client. Unless the Skype client is REALLY
>> > efficient
>> > then that can scale only so high. The permanent solution will be when
>> > Skype
>>
>> The Skype client is a pig, the endpoint (channel driver) use one Skype
>> client per call because it is the ONLY legal way to connect to the
>> Skype network (eg: is illegal to reverse engineer, etc), a lot of
>> effort has been put in understanding how to lower the CPU usage by the
>> Skype client.
>>
>> Have a look at the wiki page http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax
>>
>> As soon as people will put pressure on Skype/Ebay/Whoever owns the
>> underlying technology so they open and document the protocol, we will
>> implement an endpoint that does not depend from the client.
>>
>> Btw, will also be a step forward if they will give API access to the
>> library underlying the Skype client, but maybe that one is makeing the
>> Skype client so a pig :-).
>>
>> -giovanni
>>
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