With the release of Flash Player 10, Adobe has allowed for peer to peer connections.  But to get the clients to be aware of each other, you needed a middleman to handshake the peers such as an updated version of the Flash Media Server.  Now Adobe Stratus is a new beta service that will act as the middleman and connect the peers.  Once the connection has been established, it’s all peer to peer traffic.

Imagine peer to peer games, video chat without a intermediate server, etc.  I hope to get a demo app out once I learn a little bit about it more.

Read more about Stratus [via drawlogic.com]