March 08, 2005

Peering at Peerio

Popular Telephony has developed a serverless computer/communication technology called Peerio. They have talked up the benefits of this technology without giving much detail, either on the specifics of the technology or on the specific advantages. The first application of this technology seems to PBX replacement for SMBs. Many have expressed doubts about Peerio because the previewed software has many implementation problems. Previously I had questioned the need for a serverless communication system. Recently I summarized some of the technology behind Peerio as can be surmised from one of their patent application. A commenter (“prostuda”) to the post suggested that I missed the most interesting points, “redundancy on top of serverless network” being one of them. Subsequently, Martin wrote that “the serverless concept is a red herring; the important thing is self-configuration”. Nonetheless, he also thinks real-time communication is the major application of Peerio.

As serendipity would have it, C|Net recently wrote a story about the technology Google uses to manage failures at their data centers. According to this article, Google has networked multiple standard grade computers and data is replicated in multiple places. Is this what “prostuda” and Martin have in mind? Is the real point of Peerio technology to replicate Google technology for storing and retrieving data in an enterprise? If that is so, won’t they be focusing on large enterprises, rather than SMBs? Probably some their planned announcements in VON will shed some light on this.

Posted by aswath at March 8, 2005 07:38 AM
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