Selecting and Deploying the Technology

As a rough guide to the issues encountered, this section outlines some of the steps in the process of selecting and deploying a p2p technology.

While there is a great difference between installing a p2p solution for personal use or home LAN and deploying a solution for enterprise and thousands of users, most of the same questions should be considered even if the consequences have very different impact. All too seldom are the benefits, problems, and consequences examined in light of one’s intended purpose with the deployment.

Dynamic or Static

Something to get used to when using p2p technology, as defined in the modern sense of virtual networks overlaid on the fixed Internet or LAN infrastructure, is the ...

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