Posted: 12th Mar, 2004 By: MarkJ
The UK wing of Tangium, an Israeli-based vendor, has introduced what it believes could be the solution to ISP network congestion caused by P2P file-sharers - PeerAppliance. The service claims to eliminate up to 70% of network traffic generated by P2P:
We provide an appliance which caches repetitive peer to peer content lowering the backhaul usage by up to 70%. This makes the value proposition for peer to peer much more attractive as the network does not grind to a halt and ISPs can provide VIP services to the P2P community. Lastly, the appliance also reports and archives usage at the IP level so if an ISP was asked to provide details of peer to peer users (and, of course wanted to provide them
) the cache would be able to assist.http://www.peerapp.com