Skype Traffic Grew 36% in 2013
Market research firm TeleGeography reports that Skype’s international traffic volume continues to grow significantly. TeleGeography estimates that Skype’s on-net (Skype to Skype) international traffic grew 36% in 2013, to 214 billion minutes. By comparison, International telephone traffic from fixed and mobile phones continues increasing by 7 % in 2013, to 547 billion minutes. While international PSTN traffic still carries most international traffic, Skype’s minutes are growing more rapidly: in 2013, Skype added 50 percent more than the combined international growth of every telco in the world.
Commenting in a statement on the trend, TeleGeography analyst Stephan Beckert said, “The rapid spread of OTT services is making life ever more challenging for international service providers, but the PSTN will not disappear anytime soon. No other network comes close to matching the global reach of the PSTN. While Facebook has approximately 1.2 billion monthly users, at year-end 2013, the PSTN connected to just over 8 billion fixed and mobile subscribers worldwide.”
In other news, Sonus has introduced new software enhancements to the Sonus SBC 1000 and SBC 2000 Session Border Controllers. Release 3.1 is designed to improve Microsoft Lync Enterprise Voice environments and more easily manage and scale enterprise Unified Communications (UC) networks. The upgrades by Sonus enable media quality monitoring for the entire Lync call, including the SIP trunk portion, providing information about delay, jitter and packet loss so network engineers to proactively monitor and troubleshoot call quality of experience issues for the entire session. With its latest upgrade, Sonus can also dynamically monitor available bandwidth over the back-up link and direct calls over either the public switched telephone network (PSTN) or, depending on bandwidth availability, a 3G/4G, digital subscriber line (DSL) or other alternate connection.
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