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Internet2 Plus P2P Equals...

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the movies-on-demand dept.

Bill, I'm lost in cyberspace... writes "News.com has an article up about a Direct Connected P2P network set up at universities which are on Internet2. This is majorly cool! More direct information is available at i2hub.com for those lucky enough to be located at a University with Internet2 access."

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  1. Social network, not a tech one... by LostCluster · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is purely a social networking system rather than a technical one. If I'm on an i2-enabled conenction, and you're on an i2-enabled connection, then any direct connection between me and you over any protocol is going to route over an i2 bandwidth link rather than going out over the open Internet link between our two sites...

    Really, this is like when the Starr Report against then-president Clinton, and all sorts of ISPs who don't do content mirroring did a mirror for that document, since it was long and going to be frequenly downloaded that day. By keeping that traffic local on their own network, their outgoing Internet line was freed up for other traffic.

    Knowing who is closer to your network-wise, which isn't aways the shortest physical difference or lowest number of network hops, but the one who has the most available bandwidth on the path that leads from you to them and back, when given a choice between mirrors is always very useful.

    So, really, i2hub's goal is to just point out where useful content is on i2 rather than change any routing tables...

  2. Adware? by dema · · Score: 5, Informative

    I went to the website and clicked the link for the Mac OS X software. The title on the download page reads:

    Direct Connect for Mac OS X 1.1.0
    Author:NeoModus
    Program Type:Adware

    Interesting...