P2P What?

Many people have been asking us to explain how CarbonCloud works - and to explain what a peer-to-peer (P2P) framework is.

Nuke Goldstein, CTO of The Carbon Project, has one of the best, and probably simplest, explanations - “CarbonCloud uses P2P technology to enable connections directly between users’ computers so they can instantly share location content in a safe and secure environment. With CarbonCloud you can create your own CarbonCloud neighborhoods, then instantly share your notes, digital photos and maps with others through your own distributed network. There is no server or web-site involved; the connected computers is all it takes!”

The picture above gives you an idea of what this means at the "neighborhood" level.

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CarbonCloud in North Carolina

Last week we had the pleasure of unveiling CarbonCloud to a workshop of government folks in North Carolina. The group was awesome and provided some great feedback.

We used the same setup as we have at several recent demos - couple of UMPCs and laptops connected to the Internet and by a peer to peer network (CarbonCloud) . Everything worked very well.

The specific application hooked into CarbonCloud, Gaia 3 for Incident Response (Gaia 3/IR), combines NSDI Framework data access with new capabilities to share user-generated, event-specific information between all levels of response - providing enhanced overall situational awareness.

I'll try to post some screenshots shortly - there were a few interesting "incidents" that occurred during the workshop.

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