PEER TO PEER NETWORKING

Peer to Peer Networking

Peer to Peer Networking

Introduction

Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks are networks of computers that allow users to directly search for and download files (such as audio and video files) from other computers in the network. The popular but now defunct Napster was not a true P2P network because individual computers in the network searched a centralized server for music files and then downloaded those files from the computers that hosted them. Subsequent P2Psoftware, such as Kazaa and LimeWire, allows users to connect to one another directly, and there is no central entity routing transactions between computers ...