RedSwoosh

Red Swoosh is a Peer to Peer networking client from Akamai Technologies that downloads and sideloads video multicasts from websites that support the Red Swoosh technology. The Red Swoosh peercasting tool is a browser extension caches data, reflecting and sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" or Distributed Network.

Red Swoosh utilizes a proprietary, peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, designed for bandwidth efficiency in the transfer of large media files.

The company offers a software development kit (SDK) for third-party development. This includes support for predelivery, RSS feeds, web widgets, and JavaScript applications. There is also a forum and a wiki available for the developer community.

Acquisition

On April 12, 2007 Red Swoosh became the first peercasting tool to be acquired in an all-stock merger transaction, by Akamai Technologies. The all stock acquisition was valued at approximately $19 million (not including earn-outs). [ [http://gigaom.com/2007/04/12/akamai-goes-p2p-buys-red-swoosh/ GigaOm article on acquisition] ] [ [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1086222/000119312507177435/d10q.htm SEC filing on Akamai acquisition] ] [ [http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2007/press_041207.html Akamai press release on acquisition] ]

ee also

*Peer-to-peer
*Peercasting
*dijjer
*veoh

References

External links

* [http://www.akamai.com/redswoosh Red Swoosh]
* [http://redswoosh.pbwiki.com/ Red Swoosh wiki]