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

[Gary]

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:36:01 +0000, Alastair Maw wrote:

>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.

what the question is how without some for of centralisation can they
have BOTH ends behind NAT ??