P2P in the US Gov't
/. reports that the Department of Homeland Security has selected Groove Networks P2P infrastructure for sharing information among its staff members. Groove's website provides
the core info:
Groove Networks Inc., a leading provider of secure virtual office software that lets teams of people work over the network as if they were in the same location, today announced that its software is a core component of an information-sharing network that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced Tuesday, calling it "a key part of our national homeland security strategy." A public demonstration of the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) will occur Thursday at the AFCEA Homeland Security Conference at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
Only a couple of hours ago, I was on the phone with my campus tech support, trying to find out why a (legal) file I was attempting to download with BitTorrent in my office was stalled about 0.6k per second. The default assumption is that people trading files in massively parallel ways are sharing mp3s and divx files. The growing use of these powerful technologies in the workplace is going to complicate those assumptions.
Posted by johndan at March 16, 2004 10:33 PM
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