[CAnet - news] AOL to use P2P to deliver HDTV over Internet

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[Some excerpts from Lighreading article -- BSA

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=88118&WT.svl=news1_4

	
AOL will use a peer-to-peer approach borrowed from the file-sharing world of
Kazaa and BitTorrent when it begins delivering high-definition Internet
video to consumers next month.

...93 percent of those pipes are owned by cable and telephone companies
wanting to offer their own high-bandwidth services to consumers. To deal
with the potential bottleneck in the last mile, AOL plans to borrow space on
its customers' PCs to store video content at the edge of the network. As
customers begin ordering video content, small parts of the files are cached
on their hard drives. When a consumer orders a video, it is pieced together
from PCs (peers) nearby on the network, avoiding the need to push the entire
file out from a central server. 

AOL's new video service, called "In2TV," is set to launch in March and will
feature high-definition content delivered over the peer-to-peer network. 

AOL's approach is similar to the one adopted by the British Broadcasting
Corporation (BBC). In 2004, the BBC conducted trials of an "Interactive
Media Player" that used BitTorrent P2P technology to offer free access to
archived TV programs. 

With all that content and a sleek way of delivering it, AOL might steal away
a lot of eyeballs from cable and telco TV. 



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