In an attempt to appease the FCC, Comcast is working around the bandwidth hogs with a solution, on the surface.

What that is really about is Comcast becoming its own CDN of sorts, and eliminating the need for total reliance on the companies who are the giants. By working with Bit Torrent to share files, including programs that are stored locally on users PC and PVR (Personal Video Recorders) Comcast can avoid the expanded haul of sending files stored on its servers that don’t always stay on their own

networks, while plus beginning to wean away from subject matter Delivery Networks like the ones operated by Akamai, Level3, Limelight, EdgeCast, etc.

Basically, what that tells me is the cable operators are looking more and more at how they replace the distributed architecture of the telcos, with the IP efficiency that the World Wide Web brings. Hence the more they can do locally, without having to ever go by someone else’s pipes, and which they can meter, monitor and monitize means more for them.

Original post by Andy Abramson