UDP + Math = Fast File Transfers

Wolfger writes: "A new file transfer protocol talked about in EE Times gets data from one place to another without actually transmitting the data..." Well, the information is transmitted, just not in its original form. I think there are a couple of other places working on similar ideas - wasn't there a company using this for a fast file download application? User would go to download a game demo or something, receive pieces from several different places, and knit them together? Wish I could recall the company's name.

And cheap, too!

[Tsar]

The Transporter Fountain sits alongside a switch or router, and one Transporter Fountain is needed at the sending and receiving ends of a connection. Prices will range between $70,000 and $150,000.

Oh, boy, I'm gonna stop by CompUSA on the way home and grab one of these.

Compression

[heikkile]

So, someone has invented a data compression technique, and applied it over a communication channel. The only original thing in the article was the clever marketing ploy to describe this old technique as something new and wonderful...

fastest

[cr@ckwhore]

Someday when we all have extraordinarily fast computers, we'll simply be able to send somebody an MD5 sum and the computers will be able to "crack" it back into the original file. At that point, commercial software wouldn't even have to come on a CD... just print the hash on a slip of paper and the user could type it in.

word.

Re:fastest

[gowen]

Not familliar with hashes?

Not familiar with comedy?