Home › content

Napster, IBM Launch Bandwidth-Conserving Application for Networks

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 10, 2004 - 6:27am.
Los Angeles -- Napster on Wednesday announced a new "Super Peer" application that uses IBM technology to help businesses, universities and Internet service providers conserve bandwidth while facilitating the streaming and download of digital music. The system utilizes IBM eServer BladeCenter systems running Linux, along with IBM support services to cache popular Napster content in on-site servers managed by Napster, reducing bandwidth and preserving the service quality of other network traffic. Both Penn State University and The University of Rochester, which reached deals with Napster to offer their students access to Napster at reduced costs, will launch the IBM Super Peer application on their networks.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040310/law027_1.html 
http://www.napster.com

tags: Napster | IBM | Networks | Bandwidth-Conserving |

add to:  del.icio.us  |  digg |  Yahoo! MyWeb  | Slashdot


Comments

Post new comment

The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.
Add image
  • Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd><br><p> <b> <i> <img> <hr>
  • Images can be added to this post.
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

More information about formatting options

CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Image CAPTCHA
Copy the characters (respecting upper/lower case) from the image.