Saturday, October 22, 2005
Broadband Parasites: Welcome (Kind of)
Broadband Parasites: Welcome (Kind of): "SANTA CLARA, Calif. —eDonkey, Kazaa and other peer-to-peer software is the 800-pound gorilla here at the ISPCon Fall 2005 conference, a gathering of broadband providers and network operators.
The group assembled here realizes it can't stop the results of the freely available software for using the Internet to exchange computer files with anyone else. About a third of all Internet users regularly file swap, generating up to two-thirds of all the traffic on an operator's network at any given time."
The group assembled here realizes it can't stop the results of the freely available software for using the Internet to exchange computer files with anyone else. About a third of all Internet users regularly file swap, generating up to two-thirds of all the traffic on an operator's network at any given time."
