[Freeswitch-dev] Skypiax, Skype compatible endpoint

[Antonio Murrell]

Hello,
Would it work with Asterisk? what version?

thank you




--- On Mon, 1/12/09, Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at celliax.org> wrote:

> From: Giovanni Maruzzelli <gmaruzz at celliax.org>
> Subject: [Freeswitch-dev] Skypiax, Skype compatible endpoint
> To: freeswitch-users at lists.freeswitch.org, freeswitch-dev at lists.freeswitch.org
> Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 6:34 AM
> Ciao FreeSWITCHers,
> 
> mod_skypiax is now usable, for Skype calls and finding bugs
> :-).
> 
> Its wiki page (http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax, at
> the moment
> it's just the README files concatenated) begins like
> that:
> 
> WHAT IS SKYPIAX
> 
> This software (Skypiax) uses the Skype API but is not
> endorsed,
> certified or otherwise approved in any way by Skype.
> 
> Skypiax is an endpoint (channel driver) that use the Skype
> client as
> an interface to the Skype network, and allows incoming and
> outgoing
> Skype calls from/to FreeSWITCH (that can be bridged,
> originated,
> answered, etc. as in all other endpoints, eg sofia/SIP).
> 
> Think at Skypiax as similar to OpenZAP for analog lines:
> for each
> channel you need an interface (a Skype client). So, for eg,
> for two
> concurrent calls, you will need two channels, two Skype
> clients
> running on server.
> 
> If your server's Skype client(s) has got the Skype
> credits, Skypiax
> works for SkypeOut calls too.
> 
> You can use it from the dialplan, eg with the provided
> modified
> "default.xml" dialplan, you can call
> "sip:skype/remote_skypename__OR__skypeout_phonenumber"
> for calling via
> the Skype network from a SIP softphone to remote_skypename
> or to a
> phone number via SkypeOut, or you can call the
> "2908" extension from
> any phone to be bridged to the Skype Test Call).
> 
> With the provided skypiax.conf.xml all incoming Skype calls
> will be
> routed to the "5000" extension, the IVR in
> default FreeSWITCH
> installation.
> 
> On Linux the Skype client uses a lot of CPU. To lower its
> CPU
> consumption, you can use the Xvfb "fake" X server
> and (more important)
> the snd-dummy ALSA "fake" sound driver. Scripts
> are provided for this.
> But for a low number of channels it would works with
> regular X servers
> and ALSA drivers.
> 
> On a Linux machine with 3GB ram and a quad core intel6600,
> we got no
> problem with 20 concurrent calls, and plenty of room for
> adding more
> Skypiax channels (100? not tested).
> 
> On Windows, no need to do anything special, the Skype
> client is lighter on CPU.
> 
> 
> Skypiax is now pre-beta, but usable for testing and finding
> bugs :-).
> 
> 
> You can download Skypiax source code with subversion with
> the command:
> 
> svn co
> http://svn.freeswitch.org/svn/freeswitch/branches/gmaruzz/src/mod/endpoints/mod_skypiax
> mod_skypiax
> 
> then, follow the README file in the mod_skypiax directory.
> 
> 
> More info on skypiax:
> 
> http://wiki.freeswitch.org/wiki/Skypiax
> 
> http://www.celliax.org
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Giovanni Maruzzelli
> =========================================
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