they call it diet, the 160-mile download diet, others could say: p4p ngn p2p.

For the networks considered in the field tests, researchers calculated that the average peer-to-peer data packet currently travels 1,000 miles and takes 5.5 metro-hops, which are connections through major hubs. With the new system, data traveled 160 miles on average and, more importantly, made just 0.89 metro-hops, dramatically reducing Web traffic on arteries between cities where bottlenecks are most likely to occur.

Das ist doch schon mal während der Comcast-Kontroverse im Frühjahr aufgekommen.