The release of its Web P2P (peer-to-peer) platform has been announced by Leaf Networks, LLC. Leaf Networks, as an initial demonstration of their Web-based P2P technology, has implemented a P2P Facebook application. This free Facebook application allows Facebook users to create a "game lobby" in their Facebook profile and host a game server on their own PC. Utilizing Leaf Networks' underlying P2P technology, Facebook friends can view the game lobby and connect directly to the game server.

Pramod Immaneni, Leaf Networks' CTO, declared: "This is a platform which once installed, allows any Web developer to take advantage of P2P communication using basic JavaScript or Flash programming." Pramond continued: "Web P2P uses standard networking interfaces so any network application can use the P2P connections without any application re-writing."

Allowing public and private content to be combined without the need for centralizing all of the content, the new technology fills a void between existing Web and P2P applications.

Leaf Networks CEO, Jeff Capone, declared: "With the current trends in file sizes and end-user bandwidth, P2P makes much more economical sense." He added: "In the coming future, P2P technologies will seamlessly assist the Web for connecting users to rich media - bypassing traditional content delivery networks."

Leaf Networks OEMs embedded and desktop versions of the platform, currently, lans on making those APIs and its Web-based P2P platform available to developers as part of its Developers Program early in Q3. Allowing easy integration between its P2P presence and availability with presence servers in other applications, Leaf Networks will also make its server components available.

Leaf Networks licenses its technology to hardware and software vendors. Several new hardware and software applications which leverage Leaf technology are slated for release and introduction this year.

The first of many future applications which will utilize Leaf Networks Web P2P Platform, Leaf Network's Game Lobby Facebook plugin, can be found on Facebook at: http://apps.facebook.com/leaflobby .