Skype and Asterisk: What it Means for Business Communications

Skype For Asterisk, an add-on channel driver module that integrates Skype Internet calling with Asterisk-based telephony products, was announced in beta form in September 2008. The deal between Digium, the company behind Asterisk, and Skype paired the world's most widely used open source telephony software with the world's best-known Internet communications company. In this talk Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk and founder/CTO of Digium, will give an update on Skype For Asterisk and discuss what it means for business phone systems.