With the continual increases in home LAN's with NAT routers being used to provide internet access - there have been regularly voiced concerns about the decrease in the availablity of true peer-to-peer skype calls. The alternative is to connect via a Skype super-node.... but these super-nodes are vanishing as quickly because they are really just normal Skype clients themselves running on user machines.
So to my question:
Are any of the large ISP's running a dedicated machine on their core network with Skype running? One would assume that a machine like that would quite quickly be elected to super-node status within the p2p network.
I think it makes good business sense - personally. Providing your users with a local "peering point" for their skype calls. Improves their latency with others on the same network. Saves bandwidth to the outside world and even internationally (I have heard that the majority of super-nodes are actually overseas)
That said - how many of the big boys have even considered this?
So to my question:
Are any of the large ISP's running a dedicated machine on their core network with Skype running? One would assume that a machine like that would quite quickly be elected to super-node status within the p2p network.
I think it makes good business sense - personally. Providing your users with a local "peering point" for their skype calls. Improves their latency with others on the same network. Saves bandwidth to the outside world and even internationally (I have heard that the majority of super-nodes are actually overseas)
That said - how many of the big boys have even considered this?