Peer To Peer Model

This document explains why sharing is good, and why you should share this document too.

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• Index
  • Peer to peer sharing is the best cost-effective distribution mechanism
    • Why the classical model isn't so good
    • Why peer to peer (P2P) sharing is better
    • There are more advantages for P2P sharing
  • Definition list

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Peer to peer sharing is the best cost-effective distribution mechanism

• Why the classical model isn't so good

The classical top-down model has been created so someone can keep control over who has the information, and who hasn't. However as the information becomes more popular it becomes increasingly more difficult to keep control and increasingly expensive. For example a company would set up a server for all downloads around the globe.

Compare this model with this mathematical model: time 0+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min... 1 user2 users3 users4 users5 users6 users7 users8 users9 users10 users...

Spreading the information occurs incredibly slow (whether they can serve 25 people every 5 minutes, 2500 people, the basic formulae remains the same).

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Why peer to peer (P2P) sharing is better

The peer to peer sharing model on the other hand has a much more natural way of spreading information and it doesn't need police or law to safeguard it. All companies have to de is produce the information, without the cost of distributing it.

Suppose everyone share his information with 2 other persons. We get a different kind of model: time 0+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min+5 min... 1 user2 users4 users8 users163264 128 256512...

Information distribution occurs increasingly fast and is very CostEffective?.

Unfortunately, this actually just moves the "servers" to the ISP's instead of the corporations. I don't have any information as to how this scales, but it does not scale as per your model.

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There are more advantages for P2P sharing

More control over InformationDevices?. It helps to create a OpenSoftwareCommunity.

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Definition list

LAN

    LocalAreaNetwork?
    A localareanetwork (LAN) is a group of computers connected with cables.

P2P

    PeerToPeer
    The idea of sharing information between two people who are concidered equal e.g. friends.

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Contributors: RonnyClycq?