The SPP Architecture (Paperback)

After many years of reluctance, major content owners finally appear to have embraced the Internet. There are now several legal download services available on the Internet, but downloading incurs a delay for the user. Streaming reduces this delay, but creating a scalable interactive Video-on-Demand streaming service is neither trivial nor cheap, creating high barriers to entry. In this book, we address the problem of designing and implementing a scalable system for Internet based interactive multimedia streaming, and present the Streaming P2P Protocol (SPP) architecture, a system for low-cost interactive Video-on-Demand services. Using a combination of content distribution networks and Peer-to-Peer networking techniques, the SPP architecture achieves the benefits of a content distribution network without the costs being carried by a single entity. Fully deployed, the infrastructure of the SPP architecture is not owned by a single entity but a result of actions beneficial for all parties. Content providers can distribute content at low cost, users have greater access to more content, and network owners can control and reduce traffic.