Typical Web traffic is easy enough to spot: it uses TCP port 80. But plenty of protocols prefer to remain in the shadows and purposely make themselves difficult to identify—including Skype, BitTorrent ...

Network address translators (NATs) are something every software engineer has heard of, not to mention networking professionals. NAT has become as ubiquitous as the Cisco router in networking terms.

When Missouri University of Science & Technology recently installed new bandwidth management hardware, Systems Security Analyst Karl Lutzen hit upon a novel idea for using the system to cut down on ...

BitTorrent, Inc., a peer-to-peer protocols and products firm, announced on Tuesday it surpassed two billion installations of its torrent client software on Windows, Mac, and Androids. Founded in 2004, ...

Everyone’s favorite BitTorrent tracker (now that OiNK is gone) will try to develop a new P2P protocol. The Pirate Bay doesn’t like how the BT protocol is controlled by BitTorrent, Inc. It also only ...

The Pirate Bay’s pretty busy these days, reviving dead sites and whatnot, but their latest scheme is even bigger: They’re working on an entirely new P2P protocol designed to replace BitTorrent, since ...

Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is ...

With controversies like Comcast's filtering of peer to peer traffic, lawsuits over file sharing, claims by ISPs that P2P is ruining their networks and many aggressive measures taken by both sides to ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Network World. Comcast announced this week that it will no longer target individual protocols for traffic shaping, and will instead slow Web ...

BitTorrent's recent decision to make newer versions of its client closed source has raised some concerns among many in the file-sharing and open-source communities who believe keeping up with the ...