http://startup-meme.disqus.com/Tech news blog covering cool whats new on the web & provides Web Technology news reviews and analysis covering web apps web technology trends social networking & social media.enFri, 13 Apr 2007 14:35:43 -0000http://startupmeme.com/akamai-bags-p2p-tech-provider-redswoosh-for-15-million/#comment-46308002<p>It also tends to prove that AKAMAI´s timing is excellent, they have just landed a partnership with CBS to become the back bone of their content distribution network. I bet this acquisition could come in handy in cases, where you might not need to stream content.</p>Bilal HameedFri, 13 Apr 2007 14:35:43 -0000http://startupmeme.com/akamai-bags-p2p-tech-provider-redswoosh-for-15-million/#comment-46308001<p>This news tends to prove that even giants like Akamai with strong CDN networks cannot compete against p2p delivery networks. So if you cannot beat them, join (buy…) them !</p><p>To another extent, this news is very good and confirm the efforts from my company to evangelize P2P since the very beginning and provide P2P Content Delivery solutions to the top TV channels in France: peer-to-peer is now seriously considered as the main architecture when companies develop their online video distribution portal, while client-servers architecture are deprecated.</p><p>And of course it is not limited to video contents: you can use p2p content delivery networks for music, pictures, work documents, zip archives, programs …</p><p>Sebastien<br><a href="http://www.1-click.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.1-click.com">http://www.1-click.com</a></p>SebastienFri, 13 Apr 2007 12:20:00 -0000