Red Swoosh was a peer-to-peer file sharing company founded by
Travis Kalanick
Travis Cordell Kalanick (; born August 6, 1976) is an American businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of Uber. Previously he worked for Scour, a peer-to-peer file sharing application company, and was th ...
and Michael Todd in 2001 and acquired by
Akamai Technologies
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery networkJ. Dilley, B. Maggs, J. Parikh, H. Prokop, R. Sitaraman, and B. Weihl. (CDN), cybersecurity, and cloud service company, providing web and Internet security services. Akamai's Inte ...
in 2007. The Red Swoosh technology included a centralized directory that indexed online clients and caches. The software downloads and
sideload
Sideloading describes the process of File transfer, transferring files between two local devices, in particular between a personal computer and a mobile device such as a mobile phone, smartphone, Personal digital assistant, PDA, Tablet computer, ...
s video
multicast
In computer networking, multicast is group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of destination computers simultaneously. Multicast can be one-to-many or many-to-many distribution. Multicast should not be confused with ...
s from websites that support the Red Swoosh technology. The Red Swoosh
peercasting
Peercasting is a method of multicasting streams, usually audio and/or video, to the Internet via peer-to-peer technology. It can be used for commercial, independent, and amateur multicasts. Unlike traditional IP multicast, peercasting can facilita ...
tool is a
browser extension
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that caches data, reflecting and
sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" or
Distributed Network.
Red Swoosh utilizes a