Many important industries regard this as a revolution and characterize it as the instrument for the Third Generation of Internet. The common telephone connections use this model. Currently, a usual telephone communication requires a central exchange or set of central exchanges to make and maintain the connection between dumb terminals.
Smart terminals introduce the possibility of other kinds of communication architectures.
A number of these have been implemented in networks and Internet. Have an operational computer of server quality. Able to cope with variable connectivity. These features allow sharing of computing resources via direct exchange between computers. Some nodes are Router-terminals that facilitate the interconnections between Peers.