Skype Worldwide Paralyzed for several Hours User said “End of the world”

The world’s largest Internet telephone service Skype a few hours on Wednesday, a serious fault occurs, resulting in estimated global more than 10 million telephone conversations affected, in addition to not call, even if the call was cut off halfway. Some experts pointed out that because the large number of Skype users, are also wide geographical scope, this can be said to be the largest in the history of human communication network paralysis. Skype recognizes the serious problem of the system, this apology to the user, and engineering staff have been instructed to repair as soon as possible, but last night Hong Kong time, still not fully back to normal.
Luxembourg-based Skype was founded in 2003, as an attraction for free long distance calls can be sent over the Internet sound clips and text dialogue, but also provide fee services. Skype is currently more than 520 million registered users, the average monthly number of users reached 124 million, of which 810 million are paying customers. Skype users every day about 4,000 people.

On Wednesday, both in Europe, the United States, Japan and Hong Kong, there are a large number of Internet users reported that they can not connect to Skype’s server, playing less than a phone, another way to break a lot of people in the call, or even the computer a “crash” situation. Twitter message a user “I have the day end of the world ah! Skype death machine.

Skype official blog that the number of users began to decrease from earlier Wednesday it was “unusual, unexpected,” the company then send a message in Twitter ︰ “Some of you may have problems when landing Skype. We are investigation, we interrupt your conversation to feel sorry. “tech blog ReadWriteWeb said, it happened during the decline in the number of users fell from about 21 million 10 million or so.

Analyst Gore million (Charles S. Golvin) said, “so much of a communication system failure, can be said to be unprecedented. Generally speaking, even if the phone line problems, it will only be affected in some areas, but this is is global. “He pointed out that although facebook, Twitter and other sites have tried to failure, but the impact is less than Skype, because Skype is a communication tool, only used only when there is a genuine need, and facebook even if a failure, the user Wait a moment, big deal, there is no urgency.

Haas, senior vice president of Skype (Chaim Haas) explained, Skype phone network, rely on millions of computers and telephones connected to the “connection point” to the operation, which acts like a phone book, called “super nodes” (supernodes) “In normal circumstances, there will be lots and lots of super-nodes in the operational support services. But unfortunately, today there are many super-node as a technical problem and can not on-line, affecting some versions of Skype’s use.” Haas said, engineers are creating a new “great super-node” to solve the problem, the service will gradually return to normal.