Akamai has just announced that it is buying Red Swoosh, a peer-to-peer based service for about $15 million in stock.

More articles about this announcement:

http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/akamai-goes-p2p-buys-red-swoosh

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/12/payday-for-red-swoosh-15-million-from-akamai

http://mashable.com/2007/04/12/redswoosh

This news tends to prove that even giants like Akamai with strong CDN networks cannot compete against p2p delivery networks. So if you cannot beat them, join (buy…) them !

To another extent, this news is very good and confirm the efforts from my company to evangelize P2P since the very beginning and provide P2P Content Delivery solutions: peer-to-peer is now seriously considered as the main architecture when companies develop their online video distribution portal, while client-servers architecture are deprecated.

And of course it is not limited to video contents: you can use p2p content delivery networks for music, pictures, work documents, zip archives, programs …

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