Good question,<br><br>Does anybody have any contacts at Skype to open a discussion with them?<br>Should we just call them anyway?<br><br>They have chosen to interop directly with asterisk which has not completed it's attempt at wideband support.<br>
Maybe they are more interested in connecting to the PSTN but it's worth a try to ask them.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Steve Underwood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steveu@coppice.org">steveu@coppice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi all,<br>
<br>
Consider the following:<br>
<br>
- FS has recently greatly enhanced its support for wide, wider and<br>
widest band telephony<br>
- That advantage is of no benefit when interworking with the PSTN<br>
- Skype has had wideband since day one, and just got<br>
super-ultra-duper-wideband.<br>
- FS is acquiring skype connectivity options (2, which hopefully<br>
will converge to one best in class option).<br>
<br>
One obvious conclusion is Skype offers the best possibility for having<br>
broad coverage with wideband voice.<br>
However, codec issues are certain to degrade quality. Lossy compressed<br>
codecs don't transcode well, and the<br>
codecs Skype uses are their own. FS is gaining a range of open and<br>
royalty free licence wideband codecs, but<br>
not the ones Skype uses. Skype choose widely supported narrowband codecs<br>
- G.711 and G.729 - but have not used a wideband codec with broad support.<br>
<br>
So.... the point of this note is "what can we do to optimise things?"<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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