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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. Agreed- by jsav40 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I used bittorrent do download the Fedora Core 1 ISOs on their day of release- took maybe 3 hours to get the images at a time when few of the conventional mirrors had even synched/ those ftp mirrors that *were* synced were also holpelessly overloaded. It just works (TM). Still sharing those ISOs back, can't hurt to add to the torrent ;).