Thursday, 12. April 2007
Topic: WEB - on April 12, 2007 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Speed boost plan for file-sharing
Movies and music could be shared faster over the net thanks to a system pioneered by researchers in the US.
The speed of current services, like BitTorrent, is limited by the number of people sharing a specific file, such as a movie or song.
Similarity-Enhanced Transfer (SET) works by spotting chunks of identical data in files that are an exact or near match to the one needed.
Using SET the researchers have seen speed increases of up to 500%.
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