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The turnaround is distinct since P2P has distanced itself from the darling days of Napster and has been transplanted onto the architectural drawing boards of Internet and corporate network gurus.

For network executives, the about-face is showing up in such discrete places as wireless routing, identity management, Web services and grid computing. P2P has proved its worth - albeit with a few warts - in enterprise collaboration and content manag...
 

But even as P2P fades into the background, questions around security, standards and quality of service still have to be answered before P2P can flourish, experts say.
The P2P evolution

Regardless, P2P's evolution has hit its next stage. 

"Peer-to-peer is an architecture and one that will play a substantial role in distributed computing as endpoints in the network gain more power," says Jamie Lewis, CEO and research chair of Burton Group. He says that will be particularly important fo...

Lewis says the Internet today is very rudimentary with its basic protocols for basic operations. "Now we're seriously talking about the network becoming the computer, incorporating some P2P connections and being able to share processes and power, whi...

Observers say it's a renaissance.

"P2P's reverting to an architecture that can be applied to solve problems that by their very nature are distributed," says Neil Macehiter, senior consultant for Ovum, a research and consulting firm. "But the question is can this model provide benefit...

Macehiter says it can, but he cautions that security, such as removing blocks to P2P traffic on corporate firewalls, is still a major inhibitor to acceptance. 

"But you can imagine something like grid extending to share application logic instead of just being a data grid or a storage grid. When you look at Web services sharing business logic in the enterprise, you see the intersection with grid and P2P," he...
Working together

To underscore P2P's evolution, the Global Grid Forum (GGF), a 2-year-old group founded by academics and researches, merged in April with the P2P Working Group, originally founded by Intel. The groups are attempting to marry the GGF's work on harnessi...

"We're now trying to figure out how grid and P2P play nice together, and capture that power for use in enterprise computing," says Andrew Chien, co-director of the GGF's peer-to-peer area and CTO of Entropia, a provider of desktop grid applications.

Late last month, the merged group began evaluating how P2P relates to the Open Grid Services Architecture, an effort to standardize grid computing. Chien says his group is exploring how P2P protocols for such things as registration, resource discover...

And P2P's roots are reaching into other areas. It is an integral part of mobile wireless technology set for release this fall by MeshNetworks. The company's MeshLAN software extends the range of 802.11 wireless networks by making every wireless peer ...

Using a patented multihopping technology, peers that are out of range of wireless access points or peers they wish to communicate with can hop through other peers to reach their destination, including corporate LANs. It not only increases the wireles...

"P2P allows us to do the hopping, and our algorithms allow the traffic to pick the most efficient path to travel," says Rick Rotondo, vice president of disruptive technologies for MeshNetworks. "The beauty of a P2P network is that it is self-forming ...

And the technology is mature.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which created the Internet, spent $150 million developing the peer technology for use in forming instant networks among soldiers on a battlefield. MeshNetworks lice...

P2P also is key to the PingID Project to create an identity management system similar to work under way by Microsoft and the Liberty Alliance Project, which are not using P2P. 

"Ideally, you need a way to create, manage and exchange digital identity information with no one in the middle of the transaction," says Andre Duran, founder of the project. He says that's P2P, but it's just one part of the equation.