Microsoft’s Own Peer-to-Peer Application
Microsoft’s Own Peer-to-Peer Application
New York, June 20 (Kashar News): Microsoft is developing an alternative to BitTorrent Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent.
Downloading will not be possible without a 'publisher's certificate'. In other words, it will have built in DRM technology. End users request the file parts from other users' hard drives and reassemble them to create the original file.
Avalanche’s main advantage over BitTorrent resides in one small, some will say, but actually very important aspect: before dividing the file into smaller bits, the program attaches a special algorithm whose purpose is to provide every piece of the file with information about the others.
The project came to light when Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, England, revealed they are developing the file-sharing technology to distribute big files such as films, television programs, security patches and software applications to users over the Internet.
A prototype of Avalanche is undergoing tests by distributing software to several thousand software beta testers, a research engineer demonstrating the software in Cambridge said. Avalanche can transmit a file of 4 gigabytes in size in as little as one day, down from about two weeks when it sends a program directly, he said.
Source: http://www.kashar.net/technews/complete.asp?id=1524
New York, June 20 (Kashar News): Microsoft is developing an alternative to BitTorrent Codenamed Avalanche, the program makes it easy to share content by dividing files such as software, audio or video, into chunks, much like BitTorrent.
Downloading will not be possible without a 'publisher's certificate'. In other words, it will have built in DRM technology. End users request the file parts from other users' hard drives and reassemble them to create the original file.
Avalanche’s main advantage over BitTorrent resides in one small, some will say, but actually very important aspect: before dividing the file into smaller bits, the program attaches a special algorithm whose purpose is to provide every piece of the file with information about the others.
The project came to light when Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, England, revealed they are developing the file-sharing technology to distribute big files such as films, television programs, security patches and software applications to users over the Internet.
A prototype of Avalanche is undergoing tests by distributing software to several thousand software beta testers, a research engineer demonstrating the software in Cambridge said. Avalanche can transmit a file of 4 gigabytes in size in as little as one day, down from about two weeks when it sends a program directly, he said.
Source: http://www.kashar.net/technews/complete.asp?id=1524
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