Verizon actually Gets P2P
Verizon gets it. While Comcast and other similar ISP’s are fighting Peer to Peer traffic tooth-and-nail to save their bandwidth, Verizon is taking the more intelligent route … improving the protocol for better efficiency.
They are developing a protocol that they call P4P that will help the peer-to-peer clients make more efficient connections based upon carrier and bandwidth availability. Not only will this reduce the amount of bandwidth being consumed by P2P clients, it should also increase their reliability and throughput.
I highly applaud this effort by Verizon. Now, if all of the others would step up.