What is peer-to-peer?

Peer-to-peer can be defined as the coordinated use of geographically distributed resources in absence of central control, based on direct exchanges of information.

Innitially, the Internet was a network intended for computers to communicate via IP address to access each other and exchange information.

Progressively, huge centralized databases (search engines, directories, portals, marketplaces…) have been developed on order to organize the millions of web sites and servers offering content to the network.

However, many dynamics, both in business and consumer scenarios, can be better addressed by peer-to-peer networks, in which every PC is both client and server at the same time.

Those peer-to-peer networks must be reliable and functional, and be able to support solid business models, both for themselves and for their partners and users.

This is where we come into the stage…!