SAN FRANCISCO and PETACH TIKVA, Israel, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- BitTorrent, the global standard technology for the delivery of rich media on the Internet, and Oversi, a pioneer of over-the-top (OTT) caching and delivery solutions, today announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated solution that optimizes P2P traffic across the Internet Service Provider (ISP) network. In today's business climate, the joint solution brings clear benefits to ISPs: reduced bandwidth costs and deferred infrastructure investments together with a higher quality subscriber experience.

BitTorrent's intelligent client protocols (Policy Discovery Protocols) communicate with Oversi's NetEnhancer(TM) network intelligence platform to improve peer selection in line with the ISP's network capabilities while speeding up P2P downloads. With enhanced intelligence, the ISP and P2P clients avoid network bottlenecks. The solution is simple to deploy in the P2P cloud and uses the ISP's existing network resources.

The solution complements the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO)* working group initiative, which aims to improve the routing of P2P data traffic. ALTO is the IETF working group that is extending technical evaluation and standardization of ideas explored in operational tests by the P4P Working Group**.

Eric Kinker, CEO of BitTorrent, said, "We're glad to be cooperating with leading network equipment vendors like Oversi to build solutions that help network operators while preserving and even improving the end user experience on BitTorrent file transfers. We believe that cooperative endeavors like this offer the most promising opportunities for helping the Internet to evolve."

David Tolub, Oversi's President and CEO, said, "We welcome our collaboration with the global P2P technology leader. For the first time, network intelligence is being combined with P2P client intelligence to solve a key ISP dilemma: how to reduce network congestion while improving users' performance. This solution meets a real need, while reducing operational and capital expenses at a time of shrinking budgets".

The BitTorrent/Oversi solution supports commercial and non-commercial P2P applications and ongoing advances in P2P architectures.

NetEnhancer, Oversi's recently launched P2P management tool, optimizes service providers' resources by automatically routing P2P traffic to local peers in line with the available network resources of the operator. BitTorrent's Policy Discovery Protocol is designed to help peers automatically discover ISP policies which will optimize peer selection and accelerate downloads.

*For more information on the IETF ALTO initiative, please see http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/alto-charter.html

**The P4P Working Group (P4PWG) is sponsored by the Distributed Computing Industry Association (www.dcia.info). P4P, or Proactive network Provider Participation for P2P, is a method for ISP and P2P software to optimize peer-to-peer connections.

About BitTorrent

BitTorrent is the global standard for delivering high-quality files over the Internet. Millions of users worldwide are using BitTorrent's leading peer-accelerated content delivery platform to publish, discover and download digital entertainment content quickly, easily and securely. Founded in 2004, BitTorrent is a privately held company backed by venture capital firms, Accel and DCM. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. For more information, visit http://www.bittorrent.com.

About Oversi

Oversi offers a breakthrough multi-service platform for over-the-top (OTT) content, including Internet video, peer-to-peer (P2P) and other media applications. Oversi's solutions enable service providers to cope with the huge traffic load on their networks while significantly improving subscribers' quality of experience (QoE). By assuring QoE, Oversi's solutions open up new monetization opportunities with content providers and facilitate the delivery of tiered services, increasing average revenue per user (ARPU). Oversi systems are deployed in service provider sites around the world. Oversi has offices and representatives in EMEA, the US, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. For more information, please visit our web site, http://www.oversi.com.

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