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by Calcite 4355 days ago
There is no detail of how this actually works. They are keeping everything secret. Easy to wonder if this is vaporware. "In order for this to work, however, the data is coded and decoded with the patented technology. [...] The company makes the RLNC technology (Random Linear Network Coding) available to hardware manufacturers and they are in secret negotiations that will bring the improvements to consumers."
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The concept of using different optimizations to transfer and store different data types is interesting, but I agree the total secrecy in this article is disappointing, and there are no references to the study claiming to transfer video 5x faster without interruption.