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Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) is developing the new P4P standard that is a relatively little popular, but an interesting alternative to often criticized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Compared with them, the main feature of P4P is so-called transfers localization. This method uses iTrackers that download data only from people connected to the same Internet service provider. This may result in a significant download speed increase and reduce the peering points load.

The Comcast company, decided to test, in practice, the efficiency of the solution. In the study, in addition to Comcast, also Pando participated - a popular service allows files sharing - as well as Yale. A video file of 21 MB was used in the test. Download speed in the case of P2P was approximately 250 Kbps. In the case of P4P, it ranged from 400 to 471 Kbps.

The result is obviously not to be given a great weight. It should be remembered that this was only a preliminary examination. However, in case of adopting this technology on a larger scale, it can significantly contribute to faster data exchnage and traffic reduction at peering points.