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Small Business Peer to Peer

  • 0-5 Computers
  • Data Storage "server"
  • Internet Connection; Dial-Up, DSL, Cable, or ISDN
  • Printer Sharing
  • Secure data access and storage
  • Hardware
  • Virus Protection

Types of Networks Installed & Maintained

Complete Small Business - 0-20 computers with in house servers and shared broadband connection.

Standard Small Business - 0-10 computers with a print/file server and shared broadband connection.

Peer to peer small business - 0-10 computers, each sharing files and internet connection.

Home Office Networks - 1 or more computers sharing files, printers, and internet connections.

What is Peer to Peer?
After a year or so of attempting to describe the revolution in file sharing and related technologies, we have finally settled on a label for what's happening: peer-to-peer.

Somehow, though, this label hasn't clarified things. Taken literally, servers talking to one another are peer-to-peer. The game Doom is peer-to-peer. There are even people applying the label to e-mail and telephones. Meanwhile, Napster, which jump-started the conversation, is not peer-to-peer in the strictest sense, because it uses a centralized server to store pointers and resolve addresses.

If we treat peer-to-peer as a literal definition for what's happening, then we have a phrase that describes Doom but not Napster, and suggests that Alexander Graham Bell was a peer-to-peer engineer but Shawn Fanning is not...

Information obtained from openp2p.com
Article by Clay Shirky, 11-24-2000