The NewTeeVee blog recently examined the growing number of
peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery platforms [1] available for online video, including several that offer streaming. We’ve touched on this topic
previously [2], 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 [3] can be accessed as a BitTorrent download. Users can upload videos to S3, and the service will generate torrent files.
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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URLs in this post:
[1] peer-to-peer (P2P) delivery platforms: http://newteevee.com/2007/07/22/ten-p2p-distribution-platforms-for-online-video-makers/
[2] previously: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/May/10/joost_infrastructure_gets_scrutiny.html
[3] Amazon’s S3 service: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/Apr/17/5_billion_objects_on_amazon_s3.html
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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