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Bittorrent in your hardware

24. October 2006, 8:18 Uhradmin

Hardware manufacturers Asus, Planex and QNap are to embed file-sharing software BitTorrent into their product ranges which include wireless routers, media servers and network storage devices.

Two of the devices made by Asus can be configured to download digital files via BitTorrent without the use of a PC, according to Cnet News.

“These are the places where people will store their media in the future,” said BitTorrent’s co-founder Ashwin Navin. “People don’t want files to clutter their home PCs. Our technology working with these devices allows an entire family to share a jukebox.”

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A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network 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 (see file sharing) 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.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.