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P2P: if you can't beat it, fix it.(FIRST MILE)

Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is the bane of both ISPs trying to keep control of their bandwidth resources and content companies worried about file sharinwg software that enable video and music "piracy" P2P filtering products that use deep packet inspection (DPI) have been touted as the optimal solution, but as P2P becomes an increasingly legit option for moving multimedia across the network, carriers are starting to shift their strategy from blocking P2P to making it run more efficiently.

P2P traffic filtering is a tough nut to crack in part because P2P apps are usually designed to work around potential network blocks, says Matt Kolon, VP of technical operations for ...

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