For Cidera's customers, The Redhat 7.1 release is being mirrored in full today via Satellite with their Big File Mover (BFM) service. Cidera can multicast the entire dist to multiple servers in a single broadcast. With 4 of a 45 mbps transponder dedicated to this service, this 10G dist can be delivered in 5hrs.
Updates are available for this and several other mirrors via satellite using Cidera's ftp mirror service. The service uses a program called mirrord
which runs on customer mirrors to do the housekeeping. (ftp://ftp.cidera.com/pub/mirrord).
Here at Cidera, we have the ability to broadcast the latest software releases (like RedHat-7.0). Since it's broadcast, everyone with a dish will get the distribution at the same time. This solves the distribution problem. We plan to distribute all the
"free" stuff (FreeBSD, CPAN, gnu, Linux, etc). My current method for delivery requires spool space on
your side so we can push a.tgz onto your mirror. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as we
continue to develop this product. I'm also interested in testing this product at a few beta
sites so let me know if you might want to park a
dish on your roof! - Paul. (buehler@cidera.com).
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For Cidera's customers, The Redhat 7.1 release is being mirrored in full today via Satellite with their Big File Mover (BFM) service. Cidera can multicast the entire dist to multiple servers in a single broadcast. With 4 of a 45 mbps transponder dedicated to this service, this 10G dist can be delivered in 5hrs. Updates are available for this and several other mirrors via satellite using Cidera's ftp mirror service. The service uses a program called mirrord which runs on customer mirrors to do the housekeeping. (ftp://ftp.cidera.com/pub/mirrord).
Here at Cidera, we have the ability to broadcast the latest software releases (like RedHat-7.0). Since it's broadcast, everyone with a dish will get the distribution at the same time. This solves the distribution problem. We plan to distribute all the "free" stuff (FreeBSD, CPAN, gnu, Linux, etc). My current method for delivery requires spool space on your side so we can push a .tgz onto your mirror. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as we
continue to develop this product. I'm also interested in testing this product at a few beta
sites so let me know if you might want to park a
dish on your roof! - Paul. (buehler@cidera.com).