At present, with the development of Internet, the streaming media is increasing so rapidly that it has already become the main format of the Internet information. Comparing with the traditional Web applications such as text and figures, the characters of streaming media are containing large quantity of data and visits which need broader bandwidth and excellent network service. Nevertheless, because of the limitation of the structure of Internet, there are difficulties to apply streaming media in a large scale.In such conditions, CDN and P2P are developed to resolve the problem of content distribution with respective advantages in different ways, however, there still evident shortages for the limitation of the computing models of CDN and P2P. In this paper, a new streaming media content distribution model is discussed depending on the compromising of CDN and P2P.
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