http://gigaom.com/video/whatever-happened-to-red-swoosh/ Fri, 25 May 2012 20:46:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/video/whatever-happened-to-red-swoosh/#comment-457955 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:43:53 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3918#comment-457955 [...] am not surprised Travis is leaving. Back in May 2008, Janko Roettgers asked the question, Whatever happened to Red Swoosh? There was some thought that RedSwoosh would provide P2P chops to Akamai’s CDN network, an [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/whatever-happened-to-red-swoosh/#comment-457954 Mon, 12 May 2008 23:09:54 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3918#comment-457954 I agree, the Red Swoosh acquisition was mostly to take them off the table, to deflect the “CDN vs P2P” argument, and capture the P2P curiosity expressed by MSFT and Symantec for mitigating file-download cost. Given Red Swoosh was only 6 guys, and most of them have left, no one believes it will go anywhere.

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/whatever-happened-to-red-swoosh/#comment-457953 Mon, 05 May 2008 14:13:54 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3918#comment-457953

Akamai is business, not consumer focused. P2P will work just fine within walled gardens such as capmuses and large office parks.

I don’t believe P2P will scale to the massive levels you and others seem to be advocating for it. At least not without retaliation from consumer ISPs. See http://scottjberry.com/2008/03/14/when-down-becomes-up/.

Is it possible Akamai acquired RedSwoosh largely to keep it out of others’ hands?

]]> http://gigaom.com/video/whatever-happened-to-red-swoosh/#comment-457952 Sat, 03 May 2008 15:10:06 +0000 http://newteevee.com/?p=3918#comment-457952 [...] Instead, it looks same most Red Swoosh products hit been interrupted or condemned down. Continue datum at Newteevee.com. Tags: redswoosh, akamai, cdn, p2p, foxtorrent, [...]

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