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I can suggest an alternative - DAMAKA. I work for Damaka (www.damaka.com).

Our application is P2P, SIP based, completely secure and most feature rich.

Some of the key features:

- Audio (Free P2P, DialIn, DialOut)
- Video (Free 1-to-1, VideoMail, VideoProfiles)
- 4-party Video COnferencing
- IM (with text to speech)
- Conferencing (Text, audio & video)
- IMConnectivity (Connect to MSN, Yahoo, AOL and GTalk from within damaka)
- Desktop, Application and File Sharing
- Whiteboarding
- Voicemail, SMS, Audio Streaming
- Mobile client

You can learn more about damaka by visiting:
http://www.damaka.com/

Download the client from:
http://www.damaka.com/download.htm

Feel free to contact me if you have any question.

Chandan
Director
damaka, inc
damaka id: chandan

I believe that even things such as the forwarding of SkypeIn numbers relies on the DHT too (for storing the forwarding-to number), so they would need an alternative redundant place to store such data in an outage such as this, which is anathema to the religion :)

David:

I have to assume that they have the administrative record of ShypeIn users and the assigned PSTN number in a database outside of DHT; otherwise how can they recover from the current position. Given that information is available, they can allow SkypeIn users to enter their new PSTN number on a website, which their PSTN partner can use it to forward incoming calls. Since the call is kept outside of Skype, there is no reliance on DHT. Don't you think?

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Great to know there are other alternatives to Skype like www.jajah.coma nd www.zoippe.com
!

Quote:
"It is foolhardy to depend on only one form of communication."

I would say: it is foolhardy for businesses to depend on a new and unproven form of communication that does not offer any form SLA :) I don't remember my good old POTS phone and all my contacts their phones being unavailable at the same time!

@Damaka: please stop spamming blogs you vulture!