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Skype is a peer-to-peer
Internet telephony network founded by the entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrφm and
Janus Friis, also founders of the file sharing application Kazaa and the
peer-to-peer television application Joost. It competes against existing open
VoIP protocols such as SIP, IAX, and H.323. The Skype Group, acquired by eBay
in September 2005, has headquarters in Luxembourg, with offices in London,
Tallinn, Prague and San Jose, California.
Skype has experienced rapid growth in both popular usage and software
development since launch, both of its free and its paid services. The Skype
communications system is notable for its broad range of features, including
instant messaging, file transfer, voice and video conferencing, its ability to
use peer to peer (decentralized) technology to overcome common firewall and
NAT (Network address translation) problems, its use of transparent, strong
encryption and its extreme countermeasures against reverse engineering of the
software or protocol.
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