RE: Re: VOIP help required

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmmm.....we use Skype for all our intra-office comms between mainland
Europe, here (UK) and the US.  everything is encrypted, so aside from the
lack of control over the resilience of the service, there's no logical
reason, other than ignorance, that the top brass should object to it. That
said, I know that one of our major clients were barred from using it
because
the IM client that's bundled with Skype conflicted (in a commercial way) to
their MSN rollout.  The frustration with Skype is that they're not
interesting in developing a 'business' product, they're all about providing
a service to the masses at the moment.

As for India, we're currently using a development house that all use Skype
based out of Bangalore (in fact they're developing a Skype-based solution
for us, maybe), and there are lots and lots of other companies using out
there clearly for commercial purposes.  It might be illegal, but it's not
stopping people from using it.

Pete



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From: Stuart [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 June 2005 11:59
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: VOIP help required


Ahh yes, Skype ;-)

We looked into that but came across 2 problems:

1) It's a public server, which the top brass are not happy with using
2) According to the people in the other office (which is in India) Skype is
banned for commercial use by the Indian Government!! (Cant confirm the
truth
in this)

Thanks

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Patrick Lidstone
Sent: 23 June 2005 11:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: VOIP help required

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Stuart Whyte" <groups@f...> wrote:
> Morning,
>
> We have 2 offices with a leased line between the offices.  What I
need to do
> is sort out some sort of VOIP connectivity between the offices.  I'd
like to
> use some sort of soft phone application on people PC's, and would
guess I
> would need to have some sort of server.  There is no requirements at
this
> time to connect this to PSTN lines.
>
> Anyone got an ideas/recommendations on how this can be done.  My first
> thought was asterisk, but my knowledge there is poor too.
>

If you really only want to use soft phones, and you really don't forsee any
need for long term PSTN connectivity or PABX connectivity, then use Skype.
The Skype softphones are far superior in terms of call quality to anything
else out there at the moment.

Patrick