Comments on: Hablo P2P: The Impact of Pando on CDNs

By: NBC: P2P Is Evil — Except When We Use It « NewTeeVee

NBC: P2P Is Evil — Except When We Use It « NewTeeVee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:51:34 +0000

[...] what Pando is calling a “peer-assisted content delivery service,” which is essentially a traditional CDN solution with a P2P layer on top. Pando’s P2P technology is based on BitTorrent, a fact the company readily acknowledges on [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:17:10 +0000

This article does a great job of highlighting the possibilities by leveraging P2P for the delivery of large files – impressive new cost and scalability models are indeed made possible. That being said, at CacheLogic we’ve found that augmenting P2P with fixed on-network resources is necessary to deliver highest quality end-user experience – and delivering that under one umbrella service (with single SLA, a global NOC and support number, and consolidated business metric reports) is essential for operational viability.

Check out CacheLogic’s CDN at http://www.cachelogic.com/home/pages/network/index.php

By: GigaOM: What’s on GigaNET: Weekend Edition — recommend GigaOM « Identity Unknown

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:00:26 +0000

[...] Hablo P2P: The Impact of Pando on CDNs: Pando’s story has been somewhat symptomatic for quite a few P2P ventures. Potential lawsuit and a tough market for paid downloads have forced more and more companies to look for alternative revenue models. At the same time, almost overnight, online video grew a huge appetite for content delivery services. Soon people started asking: Does anyone speak P2P around here? Continue reading [...]

By: GigaOM What’s on GigaNET: Weekend Edition «

GigaOM What’s on GigaNET: Weekend Edition « — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:19:29 +0000

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:17:41 +0000

Ive been a proponnt of p2p fora long time and w its potential beyond copyright infringement and file sharing a long time ago .

Now major content companies and CDNs are taking p2p seriously see it as a partial solution to the level three transit problems and peering .

One problem p2p cant solve is congestion at the last mile hopefully that some smart engineer can find a solution possibly with a combination of mesh networking and wireless technology to fix the last mile .

By: Eideard

Eideard — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:47:30 +0000

Interesting stuff – and I usually could care less about p2p and shuffling cyberfiles.

By: bittorrent user

bittorrent user — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:37:25 +0000

everyone is jumping into this on the heels of bram cohen’s company… i have this app called bittorrent dna already on my computer which presumably does this cdn thing…

http://www.bittorrent.com/about/dna