[Asterisk-Users] http://www.skype.com/

[Alastair Maw]

On 05/11/03 10:14, Olle E. Johansson wrote:

> As I understand it they must not be fully peer-to-peer even if they
> use your bandwidth, there has to be media servers in their network,
> handling calls. Or?

No, the whole point is that it's completely decentralized. More 
interesting to end users is that the calls are encrypted and can 
traverse NAT. The way Skype can bounce between peers effectively enables 
it to provide a few different routes for the traffic, from which it 
picks the least latency one. Add a nice UI, and it's not surprising that 
it's gathering speed rapidly.

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Alastair Maw