By
Raul Bernardino
Introduction:
The
implementation of Peer to Peer (P2P) system is often seeing as an abstract of
the overlay network. The P2P application is distributing information in the
computing or networking between Head Quarter (HQ) and branches offices (Close
Networks) and anonymity (Open Network).
The
close networks usually use intranet to distribute information among the company
or the institution, including the file sharing. They use peer to peer
technology to share their information by sub-netting Internet Protocol (IP).
The
World Bank Group institution uses P2P technology to share information among country
offices around the world. The HQ based in the Washington DC has to communicate
with the rest of the offices in about 184 countries. This is the larger institution
in the world. They are sharing their information and knowledge across the
countries and regions, including the best practice from country to country. The
sharing knowledge has based on team information and it has become huge knowledge
(documents management) and it is later becomes a knowledge library. Moreover,
the sharing information enable team in the fields (country based) will work
more effective and efficient. Especial World Bank Group adopts matrix structure
in their daily operations. Additional, to enabling the sharing the information across
the globe, to be reliable, effective and efficient, the World Bank Group invests
a lot of capital in the information and technology sector every year.
The
United Nations institution is the second larger institution that operates in
the conflict countries. They are also using a close network to disseminate
information among HQ in New York and with mission operation units in the
conflict or post conflict countries. Usually, the establishment of the United Nation
(UN) mission in any request country has to have a good established
communication in order to have an effective communication back to the HQ. For
instance, in Timor-Leste, the last UN mission was United Nations Integrated
Mission in Timor-Leste has direct communication with HQ by using P2P VSAT
communication system. This sharing information is closed to the public.
The
motivation of having the anonymity in the P2P networks are user desired. The
users do not want their identities are published. The other common reasons as
follows:
- The distribution of the materials are illegal
- Legal material such alcohol, people or organization intend to be anonymity
- Fear of retribution because unofficial leaks
- Censorship at local, national level, and organization
- Privacy to avoid tracking and data mining
Other
companies that use P2P are:
Bittorrent:
The BitTorrent Company is Software Company based in San Francisco who uses P2P
to distribute for downloading. It has several features such as discovery,
speedy, advance, plug and play, simple, customizable, intelligent, and
reliable. I personally not test this features yet.
Pondo:
Pondo is may represent future distribution media. Pondo has “solved
the larger file attachment problems”, the wall street Journal Said.
SubEthaEdit:
It is shared editor to allow the developers to work as the team from the
different location. This is very handy tools for programmers who are developing
a complex program and need a team to write a code.
Limewire:
The limewire company currently registered in the court dated on October 26th,
2010 to stop the limewire software distribution.
Microsoft:
The Company uses Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) to distribute the updates
to every register clients
Conclusion: The P2P communication becomes one of the available technologies
to use for sharing and distributing information including updates among
entities. It is also freely distributing unnecessary adware to the target
clients in order to gain the information or attack with viruses.
References list:
1. Peer
to Peer, [on-line].
Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer (Accessed: 6 August 2011)
2. Activities
by country, [on-line].
Available from: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/0,,pagePK:180619~theSitePK:136917,00.html
(Accessed: 6
August 2011)
3. UN
Peace Peaking, [on-line].
Available from: http://www.unmissions.org/
(Accessed: 6
August 2011)
5. BitTorrent: Downloading easy, [on-line].
Available from: http://www.bittorrent.com/features
(Accessed: 6 August
2011)
7. What
Is Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)?, [on-line]. Available from: http://www.wsuswiki.com/whatiswsus (Accessed:
6 August 2011)
