Skype Overview Presentation

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Skype Overview Presentation

• 3Q2007

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About Skype

• eBay Subsidiary
• Worlds largest VoIP Community with
• Over 200 million users worldwide
• 30 of Skype users currently use Skype in a
  business environment
  
• 95 claimed to have saved money and 80 claimed
  that using Skype also increased employee
  productivity
  
• Over half a million new downloads a day half a
  billion since August 2003
  
• 1 out of 20 global long distance calls happens
  over Skype

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Market Leader in Call Quality

• Intelligent network management techniques to
  navigate todays complex networks
  
• Leading voice engine technology
• Sophisticated audio processing techniques
• Adaptive algorithms based on the most call data
  of any PC voice client

• Depending on the speakerphone, Skypes voice
  quality can be higher than a conventional phone
  Business Week

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Secure Network with High Quality Service
Internet
Encode Data
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Scalable and Secure

• Peer-to-Peer architecture used for most
  communication
  
• No single point of failure
• Capacity grows in lock-step with demand

• Skype champions Privacy
• Users control their status, who can contact them,
  from whom to receive files etc.

• Security from Day 1
• 256-bit standards-based encryption
• Application is digitally signed to protect
  against tampering
  
• Skype user authentication guaranteed through
  public-key cryptography model
  
• As secure transmission as a VPN
• Skype client is devoid of any malicious content

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Rich communications functionality
Presence. Enables you to see who is available
before placing a call or an IM
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Instant messaging. Enabling you to communicate
real-time with colleagues and clients
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Call. Make a voice or video call with a single
click
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SMS. Send text messages from your PC
Send Files. Send and share files securely with
your colleagues and partners
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PSTN Integration
Inbound and outbound PSTN calling. Call clients
and colleagues all over the world on their normal
phones. Enable clients and partners to reach you
on landline numbers in multiple countries.
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Voicemail. Global voicemail retrieval
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Phone Features. Call Waiting, Call Hold, Mute,
Call Forwarding, Caller ID, Call Blocking, Call
Transfer.
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Business features
Group Instant Messaging
Conference calling
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MS Outlook / Office integration
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Desktop sharing
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Business Features (contd)
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Business version of Skype software

• IT administrators can turn off or configure a
  variety of Skype's functionality or settings
  remotely across all users on a corporate network.
  (e.g. stop file transfer, disallow super nodes)
• 3.0 also includes Windows Installer Package (MSI)
  allowing easy deployment of Skype software across
  a corporate network

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Business Control Panel

• Centrally manage Skype accounts for the business
• Allocate credit to employees with auto-top up
• Print invoices
• Corporate SkypeIn numbers can be purchased by the
  company and assigned to employees

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Global Skype Community vs. Other VoIP Communities
200M Users
200M Users Cant Be Wrong!!!
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