P4P, a future of P2P networks

The new way to share files called hybrid P2P or P4P, is not really a new P2P protocol, but a technology with which Internet access providers seeking to optimize the P2P traffic at the same time take a new position in the control and economic performance of these contents.

The novelty that brings the P4P is to use the network to select those who traded with whom and in this way monitor that whoever is closest to the ISP's network is who will perform the downloading, rather than only by the criteria of protocol being used and in some cases leads to data packets traveling vast distances.

In this way the P4P technology would offer some advantages for its users as an improvement in the performance of P2P applications for a 200% on average, and above all a highly advantageous position for providers of Internet access, which would minimized consumption resources that leads to problems of saturation as well as obtaining an income of a content which is currently beyond their control.

Telecommunications companies that are doing these experiments have been grouped in a working group called P4P Working Group, which is Telefonica.

But this new technology will not allow downloading of protected content, and to explain the working group responsible P4P "Only the companies involved to distribute legitimate content will work with the ISP. The P4P will force the industry to identify P2P as good or bad kids, to mature and work with content owners and ISPs. They may not say that most do not control the material that move because this is P2P with central control. "