Skype for Asterisk available to all
Businesses around the world can take advantage of Skype’s low-cost calling to landlines and mobile phones and free calling to more than 400 million registered Skype users around the world using Skype for Asterisk.
If you already use an Asterisk-based phone system, you can add Skype as a complementary form of communications by downloading Skype for Asterisk, without additional costly hardware. If you’re an existing Skype user, you can benefit from the advanced call features of Asterisk, including call transfer, interactive voice response, automated call distribution, flexible call-routing and much more.
In addition, with Skype for Asterisk you can:
- Manage corporate Skype accounts with the Business Control Panel
- Get low Skype global rates on outbound calls and make it easy for customers to reach you with local Skype online numbers
- Route calls according to Skype profile fields, online status and privacy settings
- Streamline customer contact by allowing your website visitors to make free Skype calls directly to your business with global click-to-call buttons
What you need
Skype for Asterisk is compatible with:
- Asterisk 1.4
- Asterisk 1.6
- AsteriskNOW™
- Asterisk Business Edition™
and supports both G.711 and G.729a calling.
How to get it
Skype for Asterisk is available to download now from Digium for $66 USD per concurrent call or from Digium Authorized Resellers and Distributors worldwide, and comes with 90 days of installation support from the time of purchase. No additional hardware is needed.
Hi,
we have a problem with Skype for Asterisk on 64-Bit Linux.
Skype for Asterisk does not start on 64-Bit Linux Operating systems. We have tried Skype for Asterisk 1.6.1 and Asterisk 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 64-Bit.
Is a working 64-Bit version of Skype for Asterisk available?
I’m not sure about this, as I haven’t even tried this product yet, but my guess is that one can install the ia-32 bit libs package on your asterisk server to get this working.. I’d either back up your system first, or try it on a non-production unit before putting on your main system however.
Hope this helps.
Hi,
yes it did work. I get 64 bit debian lenny and 64 bit download skypeforasterisk. and IT’S WORK (http://downloads.digium.com/pub/telephony/skypeforasterisk/). But I have asterisk 1.4 version but I tried already on asterisk 1.6 and it goes well:)
Openet a ticket with Digium but haven’t been able to get it working on an ASUS 520 running DD-WRT.