Is SwarmStreaming The Next Killer P2P App?

KingFish

A new http proxy on the horizon may or may not be the next big leap in torrent-like p2p file sharing.

I'm proud to finally unveil swarmstreaming our third generation of swarming algorithms that are designed for the fastest downloads of web content and multimedia without any special server software or silly .swarm files. This is probably our most exciting advancement since the original invention of swarming.

The technology improves swarming by ensuring that the bytes that the user wants next are scheduled to be received next. So if they're playing back a video file, the bytes from the front of the file will be received first. If the user (or application) skips forward to the middle of the file, the bytes at the middle of the file will be prioritized. Thus, unlike first generation swarming systems like Swarmcast or Bittorrent, you don't have to wait for the entire file to download to do something useful with it!.

Under the covers it is almost unimaginably more complicated than this because it also provides Self-Healing Downloads, implements a full-blown, scalable, Web Proxy Cache, and actively works to ensure that the video playback never studders or buffers by constantly monitoring and adapting to changing network conditions. For a raw feature dump, check out the SwarmStream SDK Feature Matrix

Nowadays, because of its immense popularity, most people have only heard of swarming because of Bittorrent. Bittorrent has done more than any application to prove the value of swarming to the general public. But if people are impressed by Bittorrent, they're going to be absolutely blow away by swarmstreaming and how far we've taken swarming since its humble beginnings five years ago.

Source: Justin Chapweske's Blog

EMT

The improvements sound a little exaggerated - Bittorrent does its job well. In terms of previewing I suppose it'd be neat (and complicated).

MountainDew

Bittorrent does a fine job, i don't need to see anything so badly i need to preview it. It would seem prioritizing the bits (e.g. first, middle) would just slow the download down, esp. with few seeders.

Gobd

I hate to say it but this a stupid idea. To me it sounds like Bittorrent is faster because it doesn't send things in byte order. It sounds like Bittorrent allows for more load on the common people and less on the server and less effort for the server to get the original file out to the public.