Peer-to-peer, or abbreviated P2P, refers to a logical structure of
network where the communication is done more from one node to another
instead of many nodes depending on a central point in the network. Peer-to-peer
networks may or may not depend on a central node in the network.
The Internet is an example of a peer-to-peer network, but recently,
peer-to-peer has begun to refer applications in which
users can use the Internet to exchange music or other files with each other directly or
through a mediating server. Kazaa Media Desktop
is probably the most widespread file-sharing program using a peer-to-peer
structured network.
