[140733] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Fouant)
Wed May 18 16:34:30 2011
From: "Stefan Fouant" <sfouant@shortestpathfirst.net>
To: "'Landon Stewart'" <lstewart@superb.net>,
"'nanog'" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimJ==S62Z=RbL+nciPwk-m5RVUWPQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:19:26 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstewart@superb.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2011 4:08 PM
> To: nanog
> Subject: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's
> possible with today's technology.
>
> Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting of
> 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file through
> the
> interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell a computer on
> the
> other end how to *construct* that file. First you'd feed the file into
> a
> cruncher of some type to reduce the pattern of 8,000,000,000 bits into
> an
> equation somehow. Sure this would take time, I realize that. The
> equation
> would then be transmitted to the other computer where it would use its
> mad-math-skillz to *figure out the answer* which would theoretically be
> the
> same pattern of bits. Thus the same file would emerge on the other
> end.
Not exactly the same thing, but application acceleration of this sort has
been around for some time -
http://www.riverbed.com/us/
http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/application-acceleration/wxc-
series/
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps5680/Products_Sub_Category_Home.html
Stefan Fouant
