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Encyclopedia > Peer
Look up peer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Peer may mean: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary logo Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. ...

  • Peer, Belgium.
  • A member of a peer group, people of the same age, status, or ability.
  • A member of the peerage, or nobility, in Britain or Ireland.
  • A peer-to-peer computer networking participant, acting as both client and server.
  • The head of a Sufi order, where peer is short for peer-e-tariqat, or "leader of the order".

See also Peer is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Limburg. ... A peer group is a group of people of approximately the same age, social status, and interests. ... The Peerage is a system of titles of nobility which exists in the United Kingdom and is one part of the British honours system. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. ... In computing, a server is a software application that carries out some task (i. ... Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a system of esoteric philosophy commonly associated with Islam. ...


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Carrier Hotels: The Economics of Peering (574 words)
Peering allows two providers exchanging large volumes of traffic to save money by connecting directly, rather than routing traffic through their paid transit lines.
Peering arrangements are often "settlement free," but not always, according to Guarnieri.
If both providers find that peering is in their interest, there is the question of how to connect, and how much it will cost.
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