Voice Over IP in UK - Re: to have or not to have

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Re: to have or not to have

Chris Davies

2007-12-13, 7:11 am

RH <rh@no-spicedham.exelsys.com> wrote:
> Nowerdays the closest I come to VOIP is uisng Skype. The VOIP nazis on the
> group will no doubt say its not a real VOIP system.

Skype is VoIP using a proprietary closed protocol. Most other VoIP
systems are Standards based, using SIP. I'm not sure of the status of
IAX but I believe it is (at least) an open protocol.

It's a shame there's no interoperatbility. (If Skype published its
protocol then I bet it wouldn't take long for someone to create a
gateway.)

Chris