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P2P Set-top Boxes To Revolutionize Internet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the then-you-win dept.

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."

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  1. In unrelated news... by slifox · · Score: 4, Funny

    In unrelated news, RIAA sues Europe

    "But your honor, its not a bittorrent client, its just my nano data center..."

  2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these... by Daryen · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... oh wait.

  3. But... But... by Iphtashu+Fitz · · Score: 4, Funny

    P2P is vile and evil. The RIAA and MPAA told me so.

  4. Re:Imagine the possibilities... by SirLurksAlot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought we already had a name for that? Most people call it the internet.

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  5. Edge of the Internet by pryoplasm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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"?

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  6. The internet has edges? by Amisinthe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Apropos by egyptiankarim · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vaporware from an organization called Nada.

    I laughed out loud with that summary.

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  8. Re:Imagine the possibilities... by greenguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, yes. But this is going to revolutionize it! Which is good, because nobody's come along and revolutionized the Internet in weeks!

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