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Sniffing the Google Talk Packet Stream

by alec on August 27, 2005

Interesting stuff. James Seng has sniffed the Google Talk packet stream. It’s vanilla XMPP (the Jabber Protocol). One neat innovation is that each Google Talk client is a STUN server, thus replicating Skype’s ability to traverse firewalls, in a standard way. How long before we see this in SIP clients?

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Google Talk Commentary

by alec on August 24, 2005

Commentary from Andy Abramson and Jeff Pulver on Google Talk.

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Google Talk: What is the strategy?

August 24, 2005

Google Talk is out. You can read about the details of what it is on Stuart Henshall’s Skype Journal. He has a detailed post describing his first impressions. To me, the interesting points are: 1) It’s not SIP. It’s based on Jabber, and the Jabber XMPP protocol. What does this mean for SIP? 2) It’s [...]

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Arnold on Pulver

April 20, 2005

Thanks for the plug Jon! Jon Arnold is back on the air again, and has a nice summary of Jeff’s talk yesterday.

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Niklas Zennstrom and Skype at VON Canada

April 19, 2005

Now Niklas Zennstrom has the floor. Last year at VON Canada he announced Skype-In and Skype-Out. What’s in store for this year? He has a great chart of how fast his company is growing. 1.2M Skype-Out accounts. 1.5B minutes per month of traffic and growing 22% per month! It can scale at this rate because [...]

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