Skype™ EVO Gateway

You can now connect to EVO meetings via Skype™ .

• Add evo.phone Skype™ buddy on your Skype™ contact list.
• To connect to an EVO meeting, call the evo.phone contact. You will hear a voice inviting you to enter the EVO Meeting ID (the same as for the EVO Phone gateway). Enter the Meeting ID (and password if any) and enjoy the Skype™ / EVO communication. You can use the Skype™ Dial Pad or the keyboard (except on Windows) to type the ID. You can get this pad as it is shown in the following screen capture.
  
• Warning: As for the phone, your Skype™ client microphone is UNMUTED by default when connecting to a meeting so unless you are an active speaker, we advise you to mute as soon as you got connected to avoid disturbing the conference by sending background audio.

It is very important that you provide us feedback and comments so we can improve this new gateway as it complements our current gateways support suite (H.323, SIP, Phone/POTS, AccessGrid/Multicast).

(*) This is a pilot phase and the number of concurrent Skype™ connections to EVO meetings is currently limited to 30. If we receive supportive feedbacks from the community, we will increase very significantly this maximum number of Skype™ connections as well as the number of Skype™ gateways that we plan to install in several key worldwide locations (main laboratories and universities).

(**) Currently only the audio is bridged between the Skype™ client and the EVO meeting. It is planned to bridge also the Skype™ chat sometime soon and at a later stage, the video.