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Microsoft Satin Audio Codec Uses AI to Outperform Skype Silk
Microsoft announced Satin, a new audio codec that leverages AI techniques to outperform Skype's Silk codec over ultra-low bandwidth and highly constrained network conditions.
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Matthew Kaufman on why Skype is Dropping Peer-to-Peer
In the wake of the NSA revelations in the United States, Skype’s decision to switch from a peer-to-peer network to a server-based network has raised some eyebrows. In a recent email Matthew Kaufman, principal architect of Skype, explained why the change was necessary.
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Lessons Learned from Skype’s Outage
On December 22nd, 1600 GMT, the Skype services started to become unavailable, in the beginning for a small part of the users, then for more and more, until the network was down for about 24 hours. A week later, Lars Rabbe, CIO at Skype, explained what happened in a post-mortem analysis of the outage.