“If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn’t call it code.” — from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico Imitation, I’m told, is the sincerest ...

In a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, a computer is both a client and a server simultaneously. It is a client because it asks for data or any other service from a different computer to which ...

P2P (or peer-to-peer) networking is a network model where, depending on an operation’s context, any node can operate as either a server or a client. P2P provides certain interesting capabilities ...

The basic definition of P2P networking describes a network environment in which each client effectively acts as a file server for other connected clients. The client systems can create one-to-one ...

Each node on the network must serve as both a client and a server to other nodes in a P2P network, making it distinct from a traditional client-server setup. There is always a central server in a ...

Wait, so we do have dedicated servers? Matt: We don't use that term, because in the gaming community, "dedicated servers" refers to pure client-server networking models. Destiny 2 uses a hybrid of ...

Network address translators (NATs) are something every software engineer has heard of, not to mention networking professionals. NAT has become as ubiquitous as the Cisco router in networking terms.

The world's most successful data transfer protocol could underlie the next generation chat client ... p2p voice as well as text chatting. That's what Bleep allows: since there's no server to ...

In another effort, John Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, is developing a novel P2P server infrastructure for Web applications called the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). IPFS is meant as a different ...

almost all efficient P2P networks use a hybrid approach in which the critical applications of indexing and searching are implemented in a client/server form, and data transfer is accomplished in a ...