Peer-to-peer communication has been a major security risk for businesses and individuals alike. Internet users who use P2P software applications or networks to share entertainment content like music, pictures and video face security risks like involuntary publishing of private information, exposure to viruses, worms and spyware.
However, peer-to-peer networks and applications now see growing adoption in other verticals for collaborative and other more advanced usage such as e-commerce and P2P payment systems. P2P has evolved beyond file sharing of entertainment content. Emergence of disruptive technologies such as Skype further changed the way P2P could be seen. Through this webinar Cyberoam explains the evolution of P2P networks and apps and aims to share how peer-to-peer industry dynamics are contributing to the security problem over a two-part webinar.
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The new Web Real-Time Communications Working Group responsible for developing standards like HTML and HTTP that drive the Web—has set up a new working group that, among other things, currently developing capabilities / APIs / standards for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications between browsers.
The technology would enable P2P applications to run inside a Web browser without plug-ins or additional downloads.
New America Foundation—recently received a US $2 million grant from the Department of State to help coordinate its MANET development effort, called Commotion Wireless.
Aimed at enabling P2P-based Mobile Social Media Delivery Methodology. Commotion aims to build a new type of tool for democratic organizing: an open source “device-as-infrastructure” distributed communications platform that integrates users’ existing cell phones, WiFi-enabled computers, and other WiFi-capable personal devices to create a metro-scale peer-to-peer (mesh) communications network.
Advantages of P2P applicationsAdvantages of P2P applications
Scalability, Efficiency and Performance quality over emerging high-speed networks makes P2P a highly sought after technology for content sharing & distribution.
Emerging P2P networks are decentralized, self-organized, and dynamic; an alternative to the traditional client-server model of computing
Has important role in High Performance Computing - Grid Computing; Sharing of resources like computation power, network bandwidth, and disk space will benefit from P2P
Next generation tech projects such as Google Wallet are applying P2P networking concepts for customer acquisitions & retention and revenue generation;