Peer to Peer Technology the Next Wave in
E-mpowerment!

You receive an e-mail 6:00 A.M. while you are working on one of your telecommuter projects that states "congratulations you have contributed to a cure for cancer". You read further to discover that it was because you have donated some spare computer time to a genetics research foundation with millions of other volunteers that this modern miracle is achieved! Does this sound like an excerpt from some science fiction magazine? Actually this may be the near future with the help of a very popular technology known as peer-to-peer or P2P as it is known in e marketing.

Peer-to-peer is simply the ability to exchange data between PCs over the Internet without the traditional usage of servers. Your PC becomes a direct server that can send and receive data over the Internet by passing traditional routing. What the hell does that mean? Let us return to some scenarios to get a better idea of what exactly peer-to-peer can do.