Verizon has been experimenting with a new technology called P4P, which localizes P2P file transfers, as many media are reporting today. Essentially, rather than randomly pulling pieces of a file from around the world, Verizon is communicating the locations of their users, so local sources are preferred over distant ones. This reduces the number of hops from an average of 5.5 to 0.89.
Thus Verizon saves serious dough and even better users get their movies delivered an average of twice as fast, in some cases six times as fast. This is a good thing. Which raises the question, does this technological breakthrough solve the whole need for Comcast to throttle BitTorrent?
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