Swarmcast
An implementation that has a more explicit focus on swarm distribution of content split into many different parts is Swarmcast (www.opencola.com, and developer site opencola.org since August 2001). It relies on central server mediation to administer content for a network of distributed clients.
Swarmcast is promoted as a high-speed content distribution system for large files, rather than a file-sharing system. Publishers of very large content files with expected great demand can efficiently and reliably distribute these files to many users with low bandwidth costs. Users experience that they can download large files faster and more reliably because the swarming technology adapts to demand both by scaling storage allocation and replicating ...
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