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BitTorrent Manages Explosive Growth

10. September 2006, 18:10 Uhradmin

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — 365 Main Inc., developer and operator of the world’s finest data centers, today announced that BitTorrent, provider of the world’s leading peer-assisted digital content distribution platform, has expanded its data center presence with 365 Main by a factor of 10.

BitTorrent first became a customer of 365 Main’s San Francisco data center in February 2005, occupying a single rack. After growing to three racks earlier this year, this recent expansion brings the company to a 600-square- foot server cage, roughly 28 racks.

BitTorrent’s content distribution platform enables users worldwide to publish, search and download popular digital content quickly. The company’s data center requirements have grown significantly as it has signed recent media distribution deals with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and a number of independent movie distributors, which has increased its digital library to thousands of titles. BitTorrent’s “file-swarming” technology enables the transfer of massive files from a website to a PC with the speed and bandwidth efficiency of peer-assisted transfers. This method of delivery is the first peer-assisted network that combines guaranteed availability, high-quality video and rapid download rates.

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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.