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23-07-02, 05:25 PM | #1 | |
Madame Comrade
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Altnet and Peer Power
Kazaa and Brilliant Digital have been harshly – and rightly - criticized for their sneaky way of setting up a parasitic commercial network (Altnet) on top of the existing FastTrack network. The technical idea behind Altnet is interesting though and has also relevance to community-oriented p2p.
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Now if you replace ‘businesses and organizations’ in the above declaration with ‘groups and communities’ a whole different picture emerges. Instead of letting a commercial third-party collect, coordinate and sell our idle computing and bandwidth resources (to anybody with the money) we could collect those resources ourselves and coordinate their use through autonomic groups and communities. Even relatively small groups would have considerable peer power in storage and bandwidth terms. Say we have a group of 250 peers, each donating on average 1 k/s idle upload bandwidth to the group. Together these 250 modest upload sources would sum up to a hefty 250 k/s ‘transmitter’, enough to send a continuous top quality audio stream or a live video stream to another group. The receiving group could similarly organize itself into a sort of distributed ‘antenna’ collecting the numerous parallel download streams and distributing the results among the group members so that each interested peer could patch a complete stream or object from what has been collectively received. - tg |
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