Peer-to-peer technologies

Peer-to-peer technologies

A community portal about Peer-to-peer technologies with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A peer-to-peer computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in... [more]

A community portal about Peer-to-peer technologies with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A peer-to-peer computer network is a network that relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.

Filed under: Internet, P2P You probably all know what BitTorrent is: it's the technology that powers almost every peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing tool currently in existence. Whether for nefarious, dubious downloads, or for grabbing the latest distribution of Ubuntu, BitTorrent comes to our swift rescue on its mighty steed of share-and-share-alike virtuosity.What you probably didn't know is that BitTorrent Inc., the company created by the...  
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