RedSwoosh
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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.
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[edit] 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 acquisition was valued at approximately $15 million, net of cash acquired[1]
