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P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet
An anonymous reader writes "The European Commissions 7th Framework Program (FP7) is working on a project called Nano Data Centers (NADA) as part of the its future Internet initiative. NADA will seek to build an Internet architecture that delivers data from the edge of the Internet using set top boxes and Peer-to-Peer technology, instead of the network-centric architecture that stores and delivers content from data centers via Internet backbones. NADA is proposing a network of hundreds of thousands of set top boxes, hugely popular in Europe, to be essentially split into two — one side is the user interface side, the other a virtualised Peer-to-Peer storage client that stores and sends media in the same way a data center would. Ideally there would be millions of these boxes each acting as a mini data center — hence the Nano Data Center moniker.
The NADA project is convincing enough to have attracted some of Europe's largest telecommunications companies. Set top box manufacturer, Thomson SA, and European ISP, Telefonica, are among nine contributing partners to the NADA project.
NADA could see a dramatic reduction in the size and frequency of data centers that serve all kinds of media over the Internet."
in Spanish.
In unrelated news, RIAA sues Europe
"But your honor, its not a bittorrent client, its just my nano data center..."
... oh wait.
P2P is vile and evil. The RIAA and MPAA told me so.
I thought we already had a name for that? Most people call it the internet.
God, schmod. I want my monkey man!
since it is derived from greek. suck on it - rest of the world!
USA! USA! USA!
What exactly is the edge of the internet? Can you cut with it? Should there be some kind of safety warning?
And how exactly does a series of tubes have an "edge"?
Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who live by the gun...
The internet revolts more often than post-colonial Africa.
http://twitter.com/OLDTELEGRAM
I plan to prove this false once and for all, by sailing around the internet and arriving on east Asian web sites from the other side.
Wait a minute... you're saying that ISPs are complaining because we're taking full-advantage of what we paid for? *gasp* And when their service falls on its face when something is being used that uses the majority of several thousand customer's bandwidth they'll blame the customers instead of their inability to deliver what they promise? **Double gasp!**
The game.
Vaporware from an organization called Nada.
I laughed out loud with that summary.
Eek!
Yes, yes. But this is going to revolutionize it! Which is good, because nobody's come along and revolutionized the Internet in weeks!
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Johnson: Why don't we get the users to use peer to peer software to distribute media to each other?
ISP CEO: No that's a terrible idea! They'll get sued by the RIAA and MPAA. I have a better idea. Why don't we get the users to use peer to peer *hardware* technology to distribute media to each other?!?!?
Johnson: Brilliant idea sir! That way we can charge them for the hardware :P
Don't kid yourself. It's the size of the regexp AND how you use it that counts.