Skype “Crisis” is coming to an end

The guys at Skype must have had a tough night. My client logs in again and I just saw about 2.8 million nodes can do the same. Still I just popped out again, so it’s not been solved yet entirely. even though it is too early to call out anything definite yet we are now [...]

Anatomy of the Skype network

This is a follow-up to my earlier post on “Skype Network Problems“. I’ve just remembered an analysis of the Skype P2P Protocol from the Columbia University that might give some insight on what’s wrong. The subsequent quotes are taken from: “An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internet Telephony Protocol“, Salman A.Baset, Henning Schulzrinne, 2004, Columbia [...]