Skype connect system will interface with telephony systems and organizational operators and allow making calls at regular Skype rates.

Skype announced the launch of Skype connect a VoIP solution to companies and organizations that will interface with telephony infrastructures and organizational operators and allow them to use Skype for outgoing and incoming calls outside the organization.

The new product that was launched last year in a beta version under the name Skype for SIP interfaces with Cisco’s telephony systems and others and enables organizations to route incoming and outgoing calls through Skype’s telephony services instead of their regular telephony providers. The service allows receiving calls free of charge – an unusual service in the US where incoming calls are usually paid for – and outgoing calls according to regular Skype rates, in addition to a predetermined cost for each “channel” or telephone line.

According to estimates, about 30% of calls made through the service are for organizational consumers and the new service will allow Skype to deepen their entrance into the organizational market while in the consumer market it is under attack by Google who launched last week a call service out of Gmail in an aggressive campaign including free calls within the US.