Well it’s finally happened, there’s now a Digium supported Skype channel driver for Asterisk. What’s my opinion of this? Well in the past when promoting Asterisk systems, I’ve often likened Skype as a person to person product, great at what it does, but not really useful in the business areana. You couldn’t really integrate it with your office phone system. That’s all changed with the new Skype for Asterisk channels driver.
Let’s face it, there’s some 400+ million registered Skype users out there, now I’m not going to start calling these Skype users from my Asterisk phone system, But…. Something I’ve always liked on websites was the “Skype me/Call me” button. (yes it really does work) A great way to drive up business.
Installation of the new channel driver was a snap, and litterally within minutes, inbound Skype calls were comming through to our Asterisk based office phone system. The cost of this marvel? $66 per channel. Not too bad, if you figure that just one sale will probably cover the cost.
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