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CacheLogic bids to make P2P DRM-friendly

20. August 2006, 17:07 Uhradmin

Cachelogic today finally released its VelociX™ Accelerated Media Delivery Platform. I say finally because I’ve had an interview with CTO and co-founder Andrew Parker (left) in my own cache for over a week, awaiting the breaking of the embargo.”Pure peer to peer (p2p) has some fundamental problems in how it scales and operates. What’s needed for this to become commercial is a hybrid between p2p and content distribution. That’s what we’ve built.”

In building VelociX™ Cachelogic had to work with a lot of open source projects, such as BitTorrent, and make them DRM-friendly. The result, out of necessity, is technology available under an open source license, Parker said.

“In order to get our Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP), which is like DHCP for caches, into all sorts of different clients, it has to be under an open license. They need open reference implementation.”

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=736

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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.