Tuesday, February 16, 2010

A Faster Wireless Web

Mobile speed: Fasp-AIR will make its first appearance in the wild as an iPhone application designed to speed media uploads over wireless networks. Credit: Aspera

From Technology Review:

A new protocol called fasp-AIR promises speedier mobile downloads.

Transfers of large amounts of data across the Internet to wireless devices suffer from a key problem: The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) used to send and receive that data can be unnecessarily slow.

A company called Aspera has now announced an alternative protocol designed to accelerate wireless transfer speeds. Called fasp-AIR, it includes new proprietary approaches to addressing problems of data transfer that are unique to wireless communications. The original fasp protocol is already used to boost regular Internet transfers. It was used, for instance, to speed up the transfer of files from New Zealand to the U.S. during production of the movie Avatar.

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