Combine forces to help route file-sharing traffic to local peers and help avoid network congestion.
BitTorrent Inc. and Oversi, an Israel-based pioneer of over-the-top (OTT) caching and delivery solutions, today announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated solution that optimizes P2P traffic across the Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. The joint solution brings clear benefits to ISPs: reduced bandwidth costs and deferred infrastructure investments together with a higher quality subscriber experience.
The solution involves BitTorrent’s intelligent client protocols (Policy Discovery Protocols) communicating with Oversi’s NetEnhancer(TM) network intelligence platform to improve peer selection in line with the ISP’s network capabilities while speeding up P2P downloads.
According to the two companies, the ISP and P2P clients avoid network congestion while using only existing network and software resources.
Eric Kinker, CEO of BitTorrent, said, “We’re glad to be cooperating with leading network equipment vendors like Oversi to build solutions that help network operators while preserving and even improving the end user experience on BitTorrent file transfers. We believe that cooperative endeavors like this offer the most promising opportunities for helping the Internet to evolve.”
David Tolub, Oversi’s President and CEO, said, “We welcome our collaboration with the global P2P technology leader. For the first time, network intelligence is being combined with P2P client intelligence to solve a key ISP dilemma: how to reduce network congestion while improving users’ performance. This solution meets a real need, while reducing operational and capital expenses at a time of shrinking budgets”.
The BitTorrent/Oversi solution supports commercial and non-commercial P2P applications and ongoing advances in P2P architectures.
NetEnhancer, Oversi’s recently launched P2P management tool, optimizes service providers’ resources by automatically routing P2P traffic to local peers in line with the available network resources of the operator.
BitTorrent’s Policy Discovery Protocol is designed to help peers automatically discover ISP policies which will optimize peer selection and accelerate downloads.
jared@zeropaid.com
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