[auslander]

Tried to make sense of one their patents: - patents.google.com/patent/US8548003B2/en

Data transmission units (data units) from the source network are received at an encoding component logically located between the endpoints. These first data units are subdivided into second data units and are transmitted to the destination network over the transport network. Also transmitted are encoded or extra second data units that allow the original first data units to be recreated even if some of the second data units are lost. These encoded second data units may be merely copies of the second data units transmitted, parity second data units, or second data units which have been encoded using erasure correcting coding. At the receiving endpoint, the second data units are received and are used to recreate the original first data units.

Got brain damage. What, ffs, does it mean? Help :)

[stephengillie]

Sounds like they cache your upload on a server physically near you, and use something like BitTorrent to haul it to a server physically near your destination. Sort of like a CDN for file transfers.

This way they can reduce the number of hops (and potential bottlenecks) between their server and destination, maximizing bandwidth.

[davehorne]

I'm just the marketing guy :) but I will ask the engineer who wrote it and get back to you.

[auslander]

Please, do. I wonder if AWS with their aws s3 cp and linuxes with rsync are infringing this patent.