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Yep. This appears to be nothing more than FEC. Maybe they used LDPC or LDGM, which are superior to traditional Reed-Solomon codes. I remember doing research on
by mrb 14y ago
Yep. This appears to be nothing more than FEC. Maybe they used LDPC or LDGM, which are superior to traditional Reed-Solomon codes.
I remember doing research on FEC codes back in 2003-2004 for developing a protocol for sending large files over satellite links to multicast recipients when I was working for SmartJog.
- jwm 14y ago> I remember doing research on FEC codes back in 2003-2004 for developing a protocol for sending large files over satellite links to multicast recipients when I was working for SmartJog. Interestingly, this tool looks like it is useful for the problem you describe: http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/satellite.html http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/satellite.html
- mrb 14y agoYup. I remember looking at udpcast. I did not select it because, amongst other things, it did not support encryption. And I don't think we could use IPsec.
- kokey 14y agoSoon we will see an article about how they turn blocks of file data into algebra to save disk space.