International Long-Distance Slumps, While Skype Soars

International Long-Distance Slumps, While Skype Soars

New data from TeleGeography show that growth in international call traffic has slumped while international traffic routed via Skype continues to accelerate. International phone traffic grew an estimated 4 percent in 2010, to 413 billion minutes, down from 5 percent growth in 2009, and a far cry from the 15 percent average growth rate achieved during the previous two decades.
Where did the growth go? One factor contributing to the slowdown is the deep recession of 2007-2009, which affect

Real-time convergent billing unlocks revenues for new services

Real-time convergent billing unlocks revenues for new services

Paderborn (Germany), 21 December 2010: Real-time convergent billing will unlock revenues from new services and ease operators’ strains. Unifying all relevant processes within one single convergent billing platform will help to eliminate the chaos caused by multiple legacy systems in operation and the growing number of parallel business processes involved. Convergent billing simplifies the way in which operators can generate revenues from their subscribers or third party content providers. The s

German SkyWay DataCenter starts operating

German SkyWay DataCenter starts operating

The TIER III data center located in St. Ingbert, Germany celebrates its opening with a special welcome package: The SkyServer Performance und Power are furnished with effective high-end Xeon processors and high-grade FB-DIMM random access memory. SkyWay is a TÜV certified data center, which offers colocation, hosting and root servers. The SkyWay team relies on long-standing experience in the fields Internet, networks and high availability solutions. Being a full-service provider, SkyWay’s t