How Skype for Asterisk Can Benefit Your Business

As the world shrinks even more, fast and cost-efficient communication solutions are becoming the need of the hour. Moving beyond regular mobile calls, fax and email is the new IP PBX telephony system.
As more and more businesses are going virtual, the web interfaced-based telephony systems are assuming considerable importance. The new phenomenon that we are experiencing in this very arena is Skype for Asterisk, a powerful new tool that is opening up a world of possibilities.
Skype for Asterisk will enable small to mid-sized businesses to integrate Skype functionalities into their Asterisk software. Skype users will be able to receive, make and transfer Skype calls from IP phones connected to their Asterisk IP PBX system.

Skype for Asterisk is a true Asterisk advantage. The initial version of Skype for Asterisk will enable Asterisk users to:

• Making, receiving and transferring Skype calls with multiple Skype names from within Asterisk phone systems, using existing hardware with ease
• The existing Asterisk services complements the low Skype global rates (as low as $0.21 per minute to more than 35 countries worldwide).
• Cut costs on inbound calling solutions such as free click-to-call from a website, as well as receive inbound calling from the PSTN through virtual offices all over world using Skype’s online numbers.
• Skype calls can be managed using Asterisk applications such as call routing, conferencing, phone menus and voicemail.

Benefits of Skype
Skype is web based telephony system that enables instant calling, messaging and file transfers within at the lowest costs. All one has to do is download the software and make the most of it. There are a variety of services that Skype offers that make communication simpler, faster and cheaper.

Benefits of Asterisk
Asterisk is the world’s most widely used open source PBX engine and telephony applications toolkit. Asterisk empowers developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions for free.

The combination of Skype for Asterisk is a communication tool that incorporates the needs of business communication allowing solutions that reduce costs and increase calling flexibility.

Skype and Asterisk are endeavouring to deliver the number one solution that will let businesses to cut costs, particularly important during the current economic times. The drive to create a feature rich, stable solution with the best voice quality can be a revolutionary step in the world of business.

Every business is dependent on communication. Therefore there lies a market for communication solutions that will foster ease of communication at the lowest costs and least investments.

Big Ruckus can show you how this union of next generation telecommunication applications can save your company money while making your more productive at the same time.

Skype for Asterisk is a new channel driver for asterisk that connects peer to peer network. The new channel driver allows Asterisk to become a peer node in the Skype network. The merger of the Asterisk world with the Skype world only means greater benefits for developer and businesses.

So whether it is your desktop, your laptop or your mobile phone you can have Skype for asterisk anywhere. If you are planning on cutting costs and improving communications then Skype for Asterisk can be a meaningful investment.