About 20 million Skype users remain outline [article from Articleranks]

About 20 million Skype users remain outline

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Late Skype continues and expands. And it's also estimated how the number of people affected over 20 million users, along with another tweet company reported how the service is gradually going back to normal, even though it will need many hours for all to work with.

Inside a short article, he was quoted saying that Skype is not a network including conventional telephony or im services. "Instead it relies upon numerous individual connections between computers and telephones to make things work. Some computers are might know about call 'supernodes', which work as directories for Skype. (...) Under normal circumstances, a lot of supernodes available, but unfortunately today most of them were offline to get a problem that affects several versions of Skype. "

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This 2010 is a very positive year for Skype, its incorporation of video calls is a success, says it's more than 600 million users worldwide, a bit more than Facebook, which says a lot- established an alliance with this network in November and beat his record of concurrent users: at least 25 million.

Additionally, he prepares to look public, which become billionaires to its current owners. However, today was one of several negative days from your technical viewpoint to the company based in Luxembourg: an unidentified technical failure continues to have several million users offline.

The company, after many hours of problems, not yet identified its causes. In the official tweet, which strangely was deleted minutes later, Skype said: "Our engineers and site operations team work tirelessly to get things normal again. Thanks for your patience. "

The ReadWriteWeb site indicated how the variety of average concurrent users of 21 million, has fallen to 10, which estimates more than 8 million folks have lost power they have to do conferences or the could do with alternatives including Google Talk or Messenger.

The complaints from users have been waiting on the Web, especially Twitter, where jokes plus abound concerning the toughness for service.

Fallas how's it going, also seen with the mail service Gmail year and a half ago that runners who still tend not to trust online services have reason to maintain its position. However, it ought to be noted that these services are global and while the failure of an traditional telephone barely known as part of his small radius of influence, these web based giants are disseminated not merely among its users, in the media communication.

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