Industry group aims to improve peer to peer sharing
The P4P Working Group wants to improve the way peer-to-peer Web sharing works, thus helping the entire internet to grow. The group is composed of major tech industry players including Verizon, Pando and Yale University, in whose labs the idea originated.
P4P (not to be confused with pay-for-placement, an advertising term) refers to a network management technology that will help Internet service providers route P2P traffic. P2P applications work by sharing files directly between user’s computers…. Continue Reading