text_combined: grlygrl201aolcom dear c greg curry network world fusion article sent geege guten tag yall visited network world fusion yet wwwnwfusioncom find additional informative articles primers research specific network technologies products visit us today wwwnwfusioncom news20020819specialfocushtml p2p getting serious work john fontana network world 081902 years removed mayhem music swapping clogged corporate networks peertopeer technology growing rediscovering roots legitimate concept distributed computing corporate environments internet turnaround distinct since p2p distanced darling days napster transplanted onto architectural drawing boards internet corporate network gurus network executives aboutface showing discrete places wireless routing identity management web services grid computing p2p proved worth albeit warts enterprise collaboration content management applications brightest future may plumbing corporate distributed computing even p2p fades background questions around security standards quality service still answered p2p flourish experts say p2p evolution regardless p2ps evolution hit next stage peertopeer architecture one play substantial role distributed computing endpoints network gain power says jamie lewis ceo research chair burton group says particularly important web services peers share processes data p2p become fundamental part distributed computing evolves across internet enterprises build distributed systems internally lewis says internet today rudimentary basic protocols basic operations seriously talking network becoming computer incorporating p2p connections able share processes power grid computing provides observers say renaissance p2ps reverting architecture applied solve problems nature distributed says neil macehiter senior consultant ovum research consulting firm question model provide benefits business use macehiter says cautions security removing blocks p2p traffic corporate firewalls still major inhibitor acceptance imagine something like grid extending share application logic instead data grid storage grid look web services sharing business logic enterprise see intersection grid p2p says working together underscore p2ps evolution global grid forum ggf 2yearold group founded academics researches merged april p2p working group originally founded intel groups attempting marry ggfs work harnessing servers grid p2ps ability connect desktops trying figure grid p2p play nice together capture power use enterprise computing says andrew chien codirector ggfs peertopeer area cto entropia provider desktop grid applications late last month merged group began evaluating p2p relates open grid services architecture effort standardize grid computing chien says group exploring p2p protocols things registration resource discovery coordination data transfer support common grid infrastructure p2ps roots reaching areas integral part mobile wireless technology set release fall meshnetworks companys meshlan software extends range 80211 wireless networks making every wireless peer endpoint adhoc p2p network also routerrepeater channel traffic peers using patented multihopping technology peers range wireless access points peers wish communicate hop peers reach destination including corporate lans increases wireless range preserves throughput 6 megabits technology also mobile letting hopping take place nodes traveling vehicles 250 mph p2p allows us hopping algorithms allow traffic pick efficient path travel says rick rotondo vice president disruptive technologies meshnetworks beauty p2p network selfforming selfhealing technology mature defense advanced research projects agency darpa created internet spent 150 million developing peer technology use forming instant networks among soldiers battlefield meshnetworks licensed darpa spent additional 27 million create commercial product p2p also key pingid project create identity management system similar work way microsoft liberty alliance project using p2p ideally need way create manage exchange digital identity information one middle transaction says andre duran founder project says thats p2p one part equation id virtual private vault different drawers duran says one drawer may pc one may service provider need client manage building infrastructure support ping id working server client software acts like miniweb server maintains repository users identity information users option exchanging ids directly p2p using clientserver technology authorize third party dispense identity data p2p provides level control architectures dont duran says comes fact applications efficient p2p concept driving p2p many different areas computing p2p evolved something highly disruptive something complementary intranets extranets mobile users web integration says greg bolcer cto endeavors technology develops p2p collaboration software called magi although p2p still settling new role obvious reputation musicswapping corporate scourge well behind copyright 2001 network 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