CoolTech Club with Stas Khirman : P2P - ISPs Killer?
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August 21,2008 Stas Khirman
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Peer-to-Peer applications became a major factor in the Internet traffic consumption, making major ISPs worry about sustainability of their business.
In his presentation, Stas Khirman reviews recent statistics and makes
speculations about future of P2P, Internet and ISPs businesses. Topics to be covered:
- What is the overall P2P impact on the global infrastructure of the Internet?
- Worldwide, how many people are using P2P applications?
- What are most “popular” P2P applications?
- What types of contents are shared by P2P?
- What can we learn from P2P trends?
- What should ISPs do to survive?
Stas Khirman is a founder and moderator of CoolTech Club. While not busy with Club duties, Stas is running "Khirman&Son LLC" - consulting boutique providing Silicon Valley companies with cutting edge technology expertise.
Prior to his own business, Stas co-found and run number of successful (and not so successful) networking and telecom startups dealing with P2P, Deep-Packet-Inspection , VoIP, Video On Demand, billing-mediation and other cool topics.
Thursday, August 21,2008
7:00pm - 10:00pm
(Please be on time - we need to close doors at 7:15.
Feel free to call me at 408-4803190 if you need any assistance).
HellerEhrmanLLP
275 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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7:00-7:15 - Welcome and Networking
7:15-7:20 - Welcome address and Club news
7:20-9:00 - Stas Khirman : P2P - ISPs Killer?
9:00-9:15 - Break and Networking
9:15-10:00 - Open Discussion and Brainstorm!