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TalkPlus demo : Call to echo123 from a mobile without a Skype client

November 13, 2006 05:28 AM

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I shot this demonstration on Halloween, 31 October 2006, in the offices of TalkPlus in San Mateo, California. The video is uncut, no editing at all, including about five seconds in the beginning of Jeff Black, TalkPlus CEO and founder, warming up. The call is from an unaltered mobile phone. You will see the Jeff send a text message and automatically download a Java program. That app shows his Skype address book, and he clicks on Skype's echo123 acount. For those who don't know it, echo123 is one of Skype's first test accounts. It doesn't have a SkypeIn number, so you couldn't fake access by dialing a PSTN number that forwards to echo123. TalkPlus doesn't have any access to Skype's private SIP gateways. So this demo shows that TalkPlus customers can dial any Skype user by their Skype name.

It also shows that TalkPlus has engineered a server without Skype components that talks to the Skype network as if it were a Skype client using Skype's own language. It will scale to thousands of simultaneous sessions. TalkPlus has no plans to license this technology or turn it into a product. They built it to solve their customers' need to talk with millions of Skype users.

Jeff demonstrates that Skype's protocols have been reverse engineered, and shows unmet demand for a high performance, highly scalable, "headless" or "naked" Skype server.

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Posted by: gunjan at November 14, 2006 12:42 AM

Om - our product, the VoSKY Call Center, has enabled mobile callers to make (and receive) Skype calls for almost a year.

Posted by: Dan at November 14, 2006 2:56 PM

Very true gunjan, but this product if free. And although I love what the Call Center offers this has more exciting implications for non-technophiles.

Posted by: Scott Allan at November 15, 2006 1:50 PM

The only benefit I can see is for international calling from your mobile phone. All other calls would just eat up your mobile minutes anyways, right?

Posted by: Skypetic at November 17, 2006 8:17 AM

"It also shows that TalkPlus has engineered a server without Skype components that talks to the Skype network as if it were a Skype client using Skype's own language" - Please explain how you reached this conclusion - sounds like they are just running skype clients on a server. Have Talkplus actually confirmed that they have reversed engineered Skypes protocols or is this just fantasy journalism?

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