At the same, the technology is now available for ISPs to offer value added services as being pointed out in this thread. The interesting thing is that users are willing to pay a reasonable amount for what they are doing. See the following solution http://www.peerapp.com/solutions-managing-unlimite d-bandwidth.aspx
By employing P2P caching closer to the edge, the ISP would be allow users to download (and charge).With a reasonable hit ratio, most of the downloads would be serviced right from the cache without impacting their network.
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At the same, the technology is now available for ISPs to offer value added services as being pointed out in this thread. The interesting thing is that users are willing to pay a reasonable amount for what they are doing. See the following solution http://www.peerapp.com/solutions-managing-unlimite d-bandwidth.aspx
By employing P2P caching closer to the edge, the ISP would be allow users to download (and charge).With a reasonable hit ratio, most of the downloads would be serviced right from the cache without impacting their network.