Skip2PBX Security White papers

Skype is a risk for company´s network safety

Reading some blogs, sometimes Skype is considered an unsafe application for companies´use: someone asserts that using Skype could introduce some security´s vulnerabilities.

 

This is not true: Skype, and, most of all,  Skype for Business is a tool not introducing any kind of unsafe stauff in company´s network. Installing, Skip2PBX you can have, also, a safer company´s network: Skip2PBX, in fact, works as a Gateway.

 

Bandwidht

Skype uses, on average, during Skype phone calls, 16/32Kbps of bandwidth for each call. During Skype normal work, instead, bandwidth use is equal to zero.

 

Installing Skip2PBX to use all tools offers by Skype permits to guarantee a complete control on bandwidth working. Skip2PBX is the best solution to warrant both a quality service for Skype phone calls and for others web using services.

 

Software updating

Installing Skype on each company´s personal computer could cause ssome negatives consequencies when new Skype  patchs are realeased. Also if Skype patch are released in time updating all company´s clients could be a slow and expensive work.

 

Using Skip2PBX you don’t have to set up Skype in each personal computer, so, installation time is reduced also for hundreds of clients. Updates will be set up only on the Gateway.

 

Why to set up  Skip2PBX?

 

  • Skip2PBX doesn’t require installing a software in each company’s personal computer: this is  a warrant for Skype accounts management and company’s security
  • Skip2PBX allows using traditional desk phone and so allows employees making Skype phone calls without  having headset and microphone
  • Installing Skip2PBX is really fast, also for hundreds or thousand of clients
  • Skype software updating will be installed only on gateway computer
  • Users don’t have a direct access to gateway and so they are not allowed to use File Transfer, video conference and chat

 

Risks

Worst thing it could happen, but this is, really,  a rare case, is that some hacker gain the access to Skip2PBX Gateway: in this case it will be take only ten minutes to install again Skip2PBX coming back to a normal and working situation.

It is worth to remember, also, that Skip2PBX can be set up on another network, cut off from the usual company´s network: this is a further item guaranteeing safety for company´s network.

 

Skip2PBX: save money using Skype, without running any risk!

Installing Skip2PBX could seem, at a first glance, a cost for your company, but Skip2PBX it is the unique way for using, without running any risk for network security, all Skype tools, also in your company.

 

Setting up Skip2PBX you will have, in a completely secure way, all Skype services like free Skype-to-Skype calls; SkypeOut an easy way to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles direct from Skype, SkypeIn a number that lets you receive calls from landline and mobile phones on Skype.

 

Skip2PBX is, in sum, the best way cutting your phone bill: you can calculate, approximately, that the cost for one hour international calls is the same cost of the Skip2PBX monthly fee for having a Skype line dedicated.

What about new Skip2PBX features?


  • Filter in number selection.
  • Both calls Shortcuts and SkypeOut with, eventually, allowing specified access and personal password.
  • SkypeOut service allowed with a specific timetable.
  • Skype accounts Allowing/ not allowing and changes based on opening and closing office time.
  • Call forwarding service.
  • Call reports like destinations, who made them, timetable and so on
  • Accounts management, Skype contacts personal management and Access group management.

Skip2PBX: two new software releases

Skip2PBX Basic Edition 2 lines

Support cards EICON ISDN BRI, Digium ISDN, FXS and FXO, and Box USB

 

Skip2PBX Enterprise Edition 30 lines

Support up to 99 concurrent lines, but for technical reasons there is a limit to 30 lines. Support cards EICON, Digium, and Box USB.

New Skip2PBX releases allows support for cards ISDN BRI and PRI internal PCI.

It’s necessary just a unique cable connected to phone exchange, without having external USB devices. Skip2PBX, nowadays, with new connection FXS and FXO can be connected to phone exchange like a normal local landline. Skip2PBX can be connected also in a more traditional way, both as internal and as a local analogical line.

Skip2PBX is the best solution also for your company?

Skip2PBX is the ideal solution for those companies with a really high cost in daily international phone calls: setting up Skip2PBX is the safe way to use all Skype services like SkypeOut and SkypeIn saving money and cutting radically company’s phone bill.

 

Skype linked to Skip2PBX allows, furthermore, minimizing all phone expenses of employees in business travel or of employees usually working outside (business agents, technical supporters): those employees will be connected to Skype using an Umts phone or a palmtop and call for free their company using Skype.

 

Setting up Skip2PBX you can call everyone for free making Skype-to-Skype calls. By switching your employees to Skype you remove the cost of internal calling. If clients or business contacts are using Skype you can call them for free as well. If you have an international presence, SkypeIn is the perfect way to provide a local number for your clients to call you on. SkypeIn works just like an ordinary phone number and you can direct it to your computer or Skype phone.

 

Skip2PBX linked to Skype is an easy solution: once set up, everyone in the company will be allowed to use Skype. Just pick up the phone and press a preset number (8, for example), and Skip2PBX will find an open line. Skip2PBX routes Skype calls through the office PBX, so calls will be made and received through the traditional desk phones.

 

Here are four simple ways to cut your company’s phone bill, using Skip2PBX:

 

  1. Reducing number of Telco POTS lines you must  have replacing them with Skype lines
  2. Creating a Voice Intranet  useful for making free phone calls with Skype between company’s different locations
  3. Inviting partners & suppliers to start using  Skype and to start calling for free your company
  4. Cutting  1-800 costs with Web-based Click-to-Dial using Skype

Why is it worth installing Skip2PBX in our company?

Companies with the need to make, daily,  a lot of international phone calls can, using Skype, cut radically their phone bill, but using and installing Skype in  company could be, sometimes, not so easy . There are some typical problems to face up installing Skype in companies:

  1. Using Skype requires a Personal Computer for setting up software but,  in some companies not any employees, working daily with phone, have a PC
  2. Using Skype requires having headset and microphone or a USB phone: some employees are used to make calls using traditional desk phone and start using headset and microphone could be difficult
  3. Skype software lets not just making phone calls, but allows also access to services like Chat, Instant Messaging and Video Conference. These kinds of services could lower employees’ productivity.
  4. Updating all company’s personal computer having Skype could be not easy and slowering company’s activities
  5. Skype is not integrated with company’s phone exchange: calling with Skype could be, for this reason, not really easy and not direct.

The new software Skip2PBX was created to solve typical problems that companies wanting use Skype have to face up. Skip2PBX, in fact, let integrating all Skype services with a traditional phone exchange:

  1. Employee doesn’t need to have a Personal Computer
  2. Users can make phone calls using a traditional desk phone: is not required having headset and microphone or USB phone.
  3. Skip2PBX not allows the access to services like Chat, Instant Messaging and Video Conference, usually part of Skype installation set.
  4. Skip2PBX works like a gateway. Using Skip2PBX you don’t have to set up Skype in each personal computer, so, installation time is reduced also for hundreds of clients. Updates will be set up only on the gateway.
  5. Skip2PBX allows, also making phone calls using Skype, to keep all typical functions made by a company’s phone exchange, like call forwarding, multiple calls and so on.

What is Skip2PBX ?

What is Skip2PBX ?

Skip2PBX is a new software that lets you using all Skype tools also through a traditional phone exchange.

Skip2PBX permit using Skype, the global internet communication company, that lets over 144 millions of people make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world, using the Web, also in company. Installing Skip2PBX you could access to all Skype services like free Skype-to Skype calls, SkypeOut an easy way to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles direct from Skype, SkypeIn a number that lets you receive calls from landline and mobile phones on Skype.