-----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