September 12th, 2002
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 News: Sandvine's P2P Filter
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Without a doubt, peer-to-peer file sharing is among the most popular online activities for Internet subscribers. But while it may drive adoption, P2P doesn’t pay. It costs.
Up to 60% of the traffic on your IP network is generated by common file sharing clients like Morpheus and Bearshare. Asymmetric bandwidth consumption is always a concern, but even more troubling is the propensity of P2P clients to engage in “protocol chatter” with other clients off-network – driving up your NAP fees and eroding profitability.
Sandvine Peer-To-Peer Policy Management helps you establish policies that direct your subscribers’ file-sharing traffic down the least-cost network path.
The Sandvine PPE 8200 is a one rack unit (1RU) designed to lower network costs resulting from Peer-To-Peer traffic by logically rearranging the peer-to-peer (P2P) network topology. Sandvine's patent pending technology analyzes all P2P searches and ensures that each is redirected to an on-net host before attempting an off-net host. A search will only reach an off-net host after all internal searches have returned negative results. This reduces the number of searches that transit off-net, resulting in a reduced number of downloads occurring from off-net hosts. The result is a lower bandwidth cost for the service provider.
From www.sandvine.com |
If this is possible I think it would be easy to block P2P networks totally..... 
Last edited by Paradog; September 12th, 2002 at 09:01 AM.
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