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Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story
alphadogg writes "Neil Schubert is only partly kidding when he calls Marriott International's move toward a converged network a horror story. 'I'm here to tell you a terrifying tale of network design, support and administration,' he said at an IT conference in Boston, referring to a major bandwidth crunch caused by guests wielding Slingboxes and other network devices that overran the hotel chain's outdated network. 'One of the things we've learned about our guest networks is we have one of the most foreign, hostile environments known to man in the network administration world ... I can take 100,000 customers a night on that infrastructure and we actually have less incidents of harm than we do on our corporate back-office infrastructure.'"
Slingbox is not P2P at all. You stream content from your computer back home to wherever you want to watch it.
Do not anger the worm.
In that definition everything that's unicast is Peer to Peer.
The term is nowadays used for a form of content distribution that's based on using end-user-owned, non-specialised machines working collectively.
What you're referring to is a client-server model.. Usually considered as more or less the opposite of a P2P model.
I agree that the naming peer to peer is unfortunate, though.