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CNN and P2P on Inauguration Day

Sunday, February 8, 2009
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I'm not really sure where I ran across it, but a recent article on Windows Secrets caught my attention. According to the article, CNN used a peer-to-peer (P2P) service called Octoshape to help it stream the inauguration. The program apparently opens up a port on the viewer's computer in order to allow the program to share the viewer's bandwidth.

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