BIT Torrent protocols .Basic functionality

In this animation, the coloured bars beneath all of the 7 clients in the upper region above represent individual pieces of the file. After the initial pieces transfer from the seed (large system at the bottom), the pieces are individually transferred from client to client. The original seeder only needs to send out one copy of the file for all the clients to receive a copy.

BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and by some estimates it accounts for about 35% of all traffic on the entire Internet.^[1]

The protocol works initially when a file provider makes his file (or group of files) available to the network. This is called a seed and allows others, namedpeers, to connect and download the file. Each peer who downloads a part of the data makes it available to other peers to download. After the file is successfully downloaded by a peer, many continue to make the data available, becoming additional seeds. This distributed nature of BitTorrent leads to a viral spreading of a file throughout peers. As more seeds get added, the likelihood of a successful connection increases exponentially. Relative to standard Internet hosting, this provides a significant reduction in the original distributor's hardware and bandwidth resource costs. It also provides redundancy against system problems and reduces dependence on the original distributor.

All this torrents file have common .torrent extensions . There are some search engines which will index only this torrents files and provide an easy way for the member to get those files .Some famous search engines for torrents are

Mininova, Monova, BTJunkie, Torrentz and isoHunt.

There are many clients available like Utorrent which is capable of implementing this bit torrent protocol .Some other famous bit torrent clients are bit torrent 6 , ABC ,Bit thief etc.

I know all people well know about AXXO (I am a big fan of them ), they are the those primarily reason for the success of BIT TORRENT in a great way.