Online digital music retailer Napster have launched an application provided by IBM that will help universities and other customers to save bandwidth.
The new Super Peer product stores popular songs locally on it's own server, like a cache almost, which means users are downloading locally, rather than from the Internet. This method has a huge saving in bandwidth.
Napster Chief Technology Officer, Bill Pence said,
"When we embarked on our industry-leading university program, we set out to alleviate the technical and business strains that illegal file-sharing puts on Universities and ISPs. Napster daily usage at Penn State for instance totals about 100,000 downloads and 100,000 streams."
Bill Pence continued,
"With the new application, about 90 percent of these downloads and streams would not result in traffic across the open Internet, saving the university an estimated $50,000 in bandwidth fees in the first year alone."
Huge savings indeed, we are sure you will agree.
|
|
Reader Comments: 0
