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Better Than Bit Torrent, For Internet2 Users?

Posted by timothy on from the we-had-one-atom-to-share-and-liked-it dept.

FastDownload writes "New technology for doing mulitsource/multithread downloads of ISOs is making Linux users on Internet2 happy. It's called Logistical Networking and is being developed at the University of Tennessee. Though there are some obvious similarities to Bit Torrent, Logistical Networking uses fixed, shared infrastructure instead of being peer-to-peer, which makes it useful for moving big content even when no peers are available."

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  1. P2P is NOT Going Anywhere by Preach+the+Good+Word · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Especially for legal content... bit torrent has made it so that you can get all sorts of legal content like game demos, linux distros, etc. off p2p without having to be on horribly slow ftp servers.

  2. BitTorrent is too ad-hoc by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was considering setting up a download of a database dump for hostip.info using BitTorrent, but it's too awkward to create, and there's no guarantee that there's any saving, as far as I can see (people turn their machine off, and you're stuck waiting for a chunk in the middle). Instead, I let people download the meta-data, and construct the DB - much faster :-)

    The idea of fixed nodes is less "cool" I guess, with less of the "dynamic network adapting to the load", but probably more useful...

    Simon.

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