What to expect while using our product
For those of you who have used BitTorrent in the past, you have seen that service take over your entire upload and download bandwidth. Simply viewing another website takes 5 minutes to load up.
Why is this the case for them? — Antiquated peer-to-peer protocols by design take over your upload and download bandwidth.
Neokast is a Web 3.0 company. Our technology gives rise to a Flash Crowd 3.0 service. (See our earlier posts on Flash Crowd 3.0). Web 3.0 companies do not throw unnecessary money or unnecessary load on modern day problems - problems that have the potential to transform our lives. Web 3.0 companies work intelligently to solve problems efficiently.
We would like to explain how, in using our Neokast Stream Player, you will be able to surf the ‘net and use all the applications you’re accustomed to using on your computer…all while having the Neokast Stream Player installed and running. Using cutting-edge live streaming video should never mean sacrifices on your part.
Neokast is powered by COOPERATIVE MULTICAST, not peer-to-peer.
Multicasting has not been successful in the past due to three reasons:
- Security concerns
- Scalability issues
We have implemented an efficient multicast-type experience without turning on multicast support in the routers. Unlike BitTorrent or Joost, our protocol is “polite.” Our “bread and butter” is our set of flow-control algorithms that help our Neokast Stream Player play well with networks and applications you’re currently running.
For example, we give a preference to local peers wherever possible, allowing a single copy of a live stream to come through your ISP gateway. This copy then ricochets around inside the local subnet, thus limiting the local ISP’s Internet bandwidth hit to be not much more than the typical 700kpbs. This trades inexpensive intranet bandwidth for much more expensive Internet bandwidth.
We also use a varying combination of TCP and UDP packets which looks to your ISP a lot like web surfing. Our efficient protocol makes ISP “traffic shaping” completely unwarranted and unnecessary, since there is no additional “traffic” to be shaped. If anything, we could become a model for others to follow.