Good news for Internet service providers as the new protocol will boost the speed of downloads, but will place limited demands on their system from an upstream data perspective. BitTorrent, a San Francisco-based peer-to-peer networking start-up is working with Cachelogic of Cambridge, UK on a new protocol called the Cache Discovery Protocol (CDP), which will act like DHCP for peer to peer networks.
DHCP assigns IP addresses to devices on a network automatically. Similarly, the new CDP would allow BitTorrent clients to auto discover better seeds that have been cached on the network, and allow faster downloads of the files. The new technology is helpful in situations where there are only a handful of seed files.
The torrent swarms see performance degradation when there are too many 'leechers', people who pull down more data than they upload. While the broadband providers have been slowly increasing the downstream speeds, the upstream data transfer speeds have not increased that quickly.
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