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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. Gah.. they're spreading! by Ianoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yet Another PHP Nuke-alike (YAPNA). This time from a university! Somehow I expected better. Ah well, looks like their MySQL is down anyway.

  2. Re:Yeah right... linux isos..... by silentbozo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't forget the latest 250 mb update to America's Army that 2.5 million other gamers are trying to get, all at the same time. It took me 2 hrs using a Bittorrent stream, the first time I've tried that technology. I ended up serving up 2gb worth of data by the next day, when I switched my Bittorrent upload off. Works for me, and I didn't have to create a stupid account to sit in a javascript-powered queue just to download.

    I wonder how long before people start mirroring whole sites using Bittorrent? It'd be a cool idea, save lots of bandwidth, and it would add another layer of redundancy for file repositories (such as UMICH, AMUG, INFOMAC, etc.)