Yes, P2P as a content distribution method is known to be orders of magnitude cheaper than any "classic" solution. See the paper "Video Internet: The Next Wave of Massive Disruption to the U.S. Peering Ecosystem" by P.B. Norton of Equinix http://www.blogg.ch/uploads/Internet-Video-Next-Wave-of-Disruption-v1.2.pdf
Still, it is an open question whether costs are actually saved or just shifted to ISPs :) I think, P2P traffic localization techniques may actually save costs, on obvious reasons. > Saw this on /. a couple days back and noticed that the peer efficiency > being reported by Bittorrent in this study is upwards of 96%. Not bad! > Does anyone read Norwegian, and can they determine what the (harmonic) > average download speed was for S3 versus Bittorrent? >> "An experiment was conducted recently by Norwegian broadcasting >> company ... 41,000 NOK ... 1,700 NOK. -- Victor _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
