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Skype


http://www.skype.com/

A proprietary protocol VOIP system built using Peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques.
Free for non commercial use when using softphones (PC to PC).
Offers toll access to PSTN via SkypeOut and SkypeIn
From the company that created KaZaA

Licenses the Global IP Sound VoiceEngine suite of codecs and related software including their wideband codecs (double the width of regular pstn.) If you find yourself asking, "why does Skype sound so good?", the answer is primarily this wideband ability.

Quote from website:

"I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype", Michael Powell, chairman, Federal Communications Commission, explained. "When the inventors of KaZaA are distributing for free a little program that you can use to talk to anybody else, and the quality is fantastic, and it's free. It's over. The world will change now inevitably."

-- Fortune Magazine, 16th February 2004


Skype PSTN Gateway: Rates

Skype API: http://www.skype.com/community/devzone/

An analysis of the protocol with focus on NAT capabilities and audio compression (PDF) http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~library/TR-repository/reports/reports-2004/cucs-039-04.pdf



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See also



Skype Hardware



VOIP Service Providers
Wideband VoIP


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333Skype as a VoIP Social Network

by ZOverLord, Wednesday 28 of February, 2007 [07:01:51 UTC]
I think many people forget the additional abilities that Skype offers. Skype has the ability to create a VoIP social network, which for the most part has never been done before.

VoIP has always been about calling, not really doing much of anything else.

You can Love or Hate Skype, if you wish to compare it to VoIP services only, focusing on a lack of a SIP interface, as one example, well you might Hate it, however if you can look at the other services included with Skype, some of them free as well then it just might not fit in that box.

I think it's hard to deny that Skype is taking VoIP services a notch up by adding social network type services, moving forward with a rich API interface for developers and doing this on a worldwide basis.

In todays time, users want more than complicated methods to save money on calls, they want other services that can enhance their VoIP experience as well, Sadly, most of the other VoIP providers don't get that.
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333Skype on i-mate

by , Saturday 12 of February, 2005 [22:30:45 UTC]
Now, I have to admit that I've heard some serious fluff and BS in my time, but that must have been the most idiotic piece of tech-journalist I've ever read. Common, these guys will market an i-mate cell phone, in itself a shitty phone IMHO, with Wi-Fi access and Skype installed.

So, where's the big deal here? Just install a Skype Pocket-PC client on your XDA or any other Pocket-PC with Wi-Fi/GSM connectivity, and you've got the same product.

Bousting out to say that i-mate and skype just innovated something is a pure j***-off and most of all, it's an insult to VoIP and technologists alike. The entire Skype model is an insult to the VoIP community, as it's completely prorietary and not based on a well defined standard. So it works great, I can't argue with that, but nothing interoperates with it and the only thing going for it as I see it, is a really cool marketing strategy.

Skype bases its origins in Kazaa and Kazaa's marketing/business model, which means, they will get 50% of the internet hooked up on it, then start charging an arm and a leg to get hooked into it.

If you are anything of a VoIP promoter, professional, evangelist or a technology aware person, I call on you to deny the usage of Skype in your networks and rid the world of yet another Spyware. Need I remind you, even Kazaa started out without any Spyware, and became the biggest Spyware of them all.
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333What people really want

by , Monday 15 of March, 2004 [17:36:24 UTC]
Well, I wouldn't call Skype "quite a revolution in communication technology ".
I remember we used to talk with a VoIp software long before Napster invented P2P.
It is true, we could call and talk, and understanding was something else.
Skype looks much better if you consider the voice quality, thanks also to the fact that now we have faster connections.

But what people really want?

When they want to call they want a telephone ( mobile), they want to dial a number and they want to talk.
If possible cheap and, why not for free...

The real revolution is what we can give:


www.worldonip.com

1) Access point that reaches up to 15 Kilometers and up to 90 users on one line.

You can have as many as you want...

2) Wireless mobile IP telephone that works in a coverage of 15 Kilometers( 10 miles) costs around 200 dollars, is as easy to use as any other GSM .

3) Any phone can call for free another Ip phone, locally, Nationally, Internationally, Intercontinentally.
Can call any other phone using a termination.

The VoIP Access Point costs around $1400 and you can share it among 90 people.

This is a Technological revolution.
Hard to believe, but it is true.

Marconi invented the Wireless and Antonio Meucci invented the Telephone, it happens that we talk the same language...

Patrizia

patrizia@worldonip.com