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BitTorrent, Inc.
Type Private company
Founded 2004
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people Doug Walker, CEO
Ashwin Navin, Co-founder & President
Bram Cohen, Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Eric Klinker, CTO
Industry Internet Software & Services
Products Content Delivery
Content Aggregation
Internet Video-on-demand
Employees 60 (2008)
Website www.bittorrent.com

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Business model

The company has announced three main business lines: content aggregation at http://www.bittorrent.com where the company, on February 25, 2007, released a web-based store to distribute movies, TV shows, music and video games. Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The company also licenses its technology, called BitTorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator),[1] to websites "to add the speed and efficiency of patented BitTorrent technology to their current content delivery infrastructure, significantly reducing bandwidth costs while increasing capacity over standard HTTP delivery solutions. BitTorrent DNA, which stands for BitTorrent Delivery Network Accelerator, is a program designed to speed up the viewing of Streaming video files downloading " The third product offering is the BitTorrent Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics and home networking hardware manufacturers. A software development kit ( SDK or " devkit " is typically a set of development tools that allows a Software engineer to create applications [2]

The BitTorrent online destination features downloadable and ad-supported streaming content.

BitTorrent DNA allows website developers to overlay their content delivery network (CDN) vendor with BitTorrent's P2P CDN, built on the company's widely used client software. A Content Delivery Network or Content Distribution Network ( CDN) is a system of Computers networked together across the Internet that One should be able to expect dramatic cost savings using P2P bandwidth relative to the cost of CDN bandwidth, however ISPs may view this as an unattractive application of their network capacity.

In the words of the company's president: "BitTorrent has fundamentally changed the Internet by enabling high-speed and high-quality content distribution on the web," said Mr Navin. "Today we have announced the role BitTorrent. com will play as a hub for consumers to enjoy their favourite entertainment, but we see a future that involves BitTorrent's content delivery platform powering thousands of websites, including those of content creators themselves. "[3]

The BitTorrent SDK (or what the company calls "BitTorrent Certified" program) offers compatibility between hardware, such as Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions and other Internet-enabled devices, and the BitTorrent client. Network-attached storage ( NAS) is file-level Computer data storage connected to a Computer network providing data access to heterogeneous network clients

Partners

According to the Company's website, the company has announced partnerships with some 60 companies,[4][5] including:

See also

References

  1. ^ BitTorrent DNA
  2. ^ BitTorrent » Company
  3. ^ FT.com / Technology - Film industry bows to BitTorrent
  4. ^ BitTorrent » Partners
  5. ^ BitTorrent » pressreleases
  6. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/twentieth-century-fox
  7. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/comedy-central
  8. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/lionsgate
  9. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/mtv
  10. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/paramount
  11. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/spike
  12. ^ http://www.bittorrent.com/partners/warner-bros
  13. ^ BitTorrent Device Partners
  14. ^ BitTorrent Device Partners
  15. ^ BitTorrent Device Partners

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