The peer-to-peer file exchange (P2P) is moving from being the bad guy in the movie to a promise of brilliant business for anyone who knows how to throw the tie. The main international operators, including Telefónica, played a prominent role, working on optimizing it with a technology that increases file download speeds by 200%.
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The rise of P2P traffic as a percentage of total network use has left ISPs looking for ways to limit its impact on their capacity. Comcast, notably, has chosen to throttle some P2P traffic, but that solution is generally viewed as a temporary fix.
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“Researchers at Northwestern University have discovered a way to ease the tension between ISPs and P2P users. As we all know, there’s been a growing tension between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers’ P2P file-sharing services, and this has driven service providers to forcefully reduce P2P traffic at the expense of unhappy subscribers and the risk of government investigations. Recently, some ISPs have tried to fix the problem through partnerships with certain P2P applications.
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Drivers in major urban areas are used to the headaches caused by traffic congestion and delays. But what if transportation is your business?
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