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 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 tool is a
browser extension
A browser extension is a small software module for customizing a web browser. Browsers typically allow a variety of extensions, including user interface modifications, cookie management, ad blocking, and the custom scripting and styling of web p ...
that caches data, reflecting and
sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" or
Distributed Network.
Red Swoosh utilizes a