SKYPE

Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that provides numerous internet based and mobile communication tools. Skype was founded in 2002 by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who were also the creators of the file sharing application Kazaa and the peer-to-peer television application Joost. Skype differs itself in the market from other VoIP services because it uses a peer-to-peer model instead of a server-client model. Skype's main competition in the market include companies such as GizmoProject, PeerMe and Jajah.[1]... Skype Protocol, a network that the company has not made available to the public, is the proprietary Internet telephony (VoIP) network that Skype uses. The Joltid Corporation is the company that owns the Global Index P2P protocol, which some of the Skype technology relies on. Rather than the standard client-server model in which many VoIP clients use, Skype operates on a peer-to-peer model that was originally use for the Kazaa file sharing software. [7] Skype's..