Comcast Corporation and BitTorrent, Inc. say they have resolved their differences, and will
work together [1]to make Comcast a testbed for P2P-sensitive approaches to network management, with BitTorrent focusing on optimizing its software while Comcast fine tunes its network. The two companies are promising to expand the dialogue to include other ISPs and peer-to-peer services, and publish the results of their efforts.
“Rather than slow traffic by certain types of applications
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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[2] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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