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Guide to P2P Delivery for Online Video
The NewTeeVee blog recently examined the growing number of peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery platforms available for online video, including several that offer streaming. We’ve touched on this topic previously, but the extraordinary growth of video traffic over the past year has generated interest in P2P as a delivery mechanism. A number of the services mentioned by NewTeeVee’s Janko Roettgers are focused on BitTorrent distribution, but others are serving as YouTube-style video portals for user-generated content.
The article notes that files on Amazon’s S3 service can be accessed as a BitTorrent download. Users can upload videos to S3, and the service will generate torrent files.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
August 14th, 2007