hi all
i want to integrate skype with asterisk can anybody please tell me the necessary steps

my requiremetns are
i want to call a list of numbers through astersik simultaneously (multithreading concept) so that i can launch a voice campaign to all my contact list and also want to know the call status .
possibly im have to connect to skype gateway that connect me to the asterisk can then my call is placed but what if i want to place call on a list of numbers .............
any help will be highly appreciated .

Hey,

As far as I know it's not possible to connect Skype and Asterisk as Asterisk doesn't support Skype protocol. I've heared about 3rd party applications which might be able to help you with this (like http://www.chanskype.com/), but Skype can not really comment or suggest them and trying is at your own risk.

Regards,
Mirje

Variety of different companies doing gateways etc...

Pika Technologies: http://www.pikatechnologies.com/

Chanskype: http://www.chanskype.com/
(Resource hog...developers answer your questions about once every 7 days...found it buggy...didn't want to hangup skype calls etc...asterisk would hangup...skype call would continue)

PsGW: http://www.rsdevs.com

Vosky: http://www.vosky.com

Skype Gateways: (Voip-info wiki) http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Skype+Gateways


etc...etc... find all kinds of asnwers to your questions searching skype and asterisk in google...some of which suck, some are ok, some are too costly for what you receive in return. For instance I say a gateway some company was trying to sell for 20k that did 8 channels ROFLMAO...so there are obviously some crackhead companies out there too.

So far I think Pika, chanskype, PsGW, and the gateways by Vosky are the most well known.




I will say that the call quality in chanskype though was no different than doing a direct skype call...and supposedly they have updated the channel driver to fix some of the bugs I was experiencing...now if they actually answered a question in less than 7 days...they would probably sell a lot more licenses.