IP Democracy: NTL to Test BitTorrent

What’s with NTL these days? The UK-based cable company seems to be gearing up for big things in anticipation of its merger with rival Telewest. The latest: NTL will be testing the distribution of video content over the Internet using BitTorrent’s technology. The move comes as the previously outcast BitTorrent strugles to find a business model for its file-sharing service. BitTorrent, which, in its dark-net applications, is a bandwidth-consuming bane of most broadband network providers, might not run into capacity issues with NTL given NTL’s tentative forays toward delivering 100 Mbps service.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on February 11, 2006 5:34 PM to IP Democracy