AOL ventures P2P February 19, 2006
AOL division, time warner inc will use a peer-to-peer approach used in kaaza and Bittorrent in delivering high-definition Internet video to consumers next .
 AOL like other ISP is facing problems such as congested broadband pipes. And 93 percent of those pipes are owned by cable and telephone companies wanting to offer their own high-bandwidth services to consumers.
AOL plans to borrow space on its customers’ PCs to store video content at the edge of the network. As customers begin ordering video content, small parts of the files are cached on their hard drives. When a consumer orders a video, it is pieced together from PCs (peers) nearby on the network, avoiding the need to push the entire file out from a central server. Once pieced together, the file is wrapped with digital rights management (DRM) code to control its usage after download. One of AOL’s DRM rules, for example, is that the user must be connected to the Internet in order to view the file.!!!!
 For more information on this visit: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=88118
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- Author : hemanth
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