Skype（スカイプ）で500人の電話会議

スカイプ（Skype）社は、Highspeedconferencing.comのサービスを使って、500人までの電話会議を可能とするサービスを開始する予定だそうです。

Skype Technologies plans to turn intimate get-togethers into block parties through an audioconferencing service that will allow for conferences with as many as 500 callers.

The popular Voice-over-Internet-Protocol service currently allows only five users on a call at one time, but that will expand when Highspeedconferencing.com gets certified as a Skype service, expected in the next few weeks, according to a Skype press representative. When that happens, and the service emerges from beta testing, it will become available through Skype's home page or the Skype Store site.

Highspeedconferencing.com is a service operated by Vapps, a vendor of audioconferencing equipment in Hoboken, New Jersey. It operates on the Vapps CB1000 conferencing platform, already in use by customers including Amazon.com, which uses it for internal conference calling, according to Ben Lilienthal, chief executive officer of Vapps. Skype, which operates a peer-to-peer voice calling service, was acquired last year by eBay.

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