Vbuzzer Challenges Skype’s Proprietary Approach

A Canadian VoIP service provider called Vbuzzer has challenged Skype’s proprietary approach to the development of their client software. It is Vbuzzer’s stance that their open and standarized VoIP protocol is a better solution for users looking to make VoIP calls.

Vbuzzer believe that by taking a proprietary route, Skype are leaving their customers open to security holes, viruses, inferior call quality and system-crippling memory leaks.

“We are appealing to every VoIP provider to employ an open standard protocol,” says Mike Mu, President of Softroute Corporation the developers of Vbuzzer. “What a nightmare it would be if we had to use different protocols to browse AOL or Yahoo online, but that is exactly what is happening in the VoIP world. Users suffer from incompatibility across the network. It’s absolutely ridiculous when companies like Skype use their own proprietary protocols and then have to convert to SIP when user’s call “out”.

Mr. Mu argues that a recent announcement by MSN and Yahoo! to make their instant messenger clients and VoIP networks interoperable supports Vbuzzer’s position on the standardization VoIP.