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Re: Google wants to be your Internet

  • From: Roland Dobbins
  • Date: Sat Jan 20 22:13:34 2007
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On Jan 20, 2007, at 6:14 PM, Mark Smith wrote:

It doesn't seem that the P2P
application developers are doing it, maybe because they don't care
because it doesn't directly impact them, or maybe because they don't
know how to. If squid could provide a traffic localising solution which
is just another traffic sink or source (e.g. a server) to an ISP,
rather than something that requires enabling knobs on the network
infrastructure for special handling or requires special traffic
engineering for it to work, I'd think you'd get quite a bit of
interest.

I think there's interest from the consumer level, already:


http://torrentfreak.com/review-the-wireless-BitTorrent-router/

It's early days, but if this becomes the norm, then the end-users themselves will end up doing the caching.

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