P2P has been consuming internet traffic over 60% for a few years. Most ISPs have blocked P2P traffic to reduce international bandwidth requirement by using layer-7 filtering or bandwidth shaping products. By the way, this policy causes user to switch to other ISPs instead. It seems True Internet -- the Thailand’s largest ISP -- has a new idea. They will never block P2P traffic or limit the traffic, instead they deploy a cache farm.

The most popular P2P in Thailand is BitTorrent. There are so many private BitTorrent trackers in this country. Anyway, new contents are always downloaded from international trackers outside Thailand. So the basic idea is to cache piece by given infohash and piece id as unique key. Perfect! One thing that might be concerned is speed of this cache. True Internet chosen UltraBand 2000 by PeerApp which supports clustering architecture. It is fully extensible. However, its capability depends on your network speed.

As a result, True Internet claimed that UltraBand 2000 reduces P2P bandwidth by more than 60%. Cool! Fortunately, I’m their customer.

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