P-Cube wades into P2P traffic. (Broadband Week).(Brief Article)

Multichannel News, April, 2003 by Stump, Matt

Another company has thrown its hat into the ring of peer-to-peer traffic management: P-Cube Inc. has unveiled its P2P Control Solution for cable operators and DSL providers, with an eye toward helping to manage increasing amounts of traffic. P-Cube said it is in trials with a few North American cable operators, and has signed deployment deals with Telenor Avidi, a large Norwegian cable operator, and SingTel, a Singapore DSL provider.

The heart of the P-Cube system is a service engine that detects, analyzes and controls Internet-protocol traffic. That allows service providers to detect peer-to-peer usage across a wide variety of protocols, using application-layer traffic classification mechanisms, the company said. Those mechanisms can identify...

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