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Re: [kFW] P2P from M2Q and K2L



Well, there are actually quite a few P2P companies working on centrally mediated P2P and claiming to have more efficient and cheaper means of distribution then the typical CDN.

<http://www.peertopeercentral.com/cdnrelease.html>

But I have always wondered how are they going to convince users to install a piece of their software and to give up parts of their hard-disk in order to view a view movie clips...

If they have gone the other way by placing a few "peers" at the iDCs, they are likely to end up with a scaling problem...

Anyone with any insights?




At 03:41 PM 10/31/2001 +0000, you wrote:
Kendra List
This should start the shaking of a few cages. Although this is the first
time I've seen it on the wire, I know they've been looking at it for some
years. Hello, Akamai, Digital Island, Mirror Image and all those other edge
serving tech stocks! Maybe more attention should be paid to these server
cluster guys as they might actually have a bandwidth ready network once all
the p2p connections get populated, that is if they can stay afloat long
enough!
John McHugh

"Intel is planning to release a corporate peer-to-peer application inspired
by Napster.

Doug Busch, IT director of Intel, said the company has developed a P2P
technology called Share and Learn inspired by the controversial
music-swapping service.

He told silicon.com: "We got the idea from Napster as we had a big demand to
distribute large multimedia files for various departments but the WAN
required to do that was very expensive."

You can get the whole story here:
http://www.silicon.com/bin/bladerunner?30REQEVENT=&REQAUTH=21046&14001REQSUB
=REQINT1=48712