A zettabyte is more data than you generate during your whole lifetime. It's pointless to have so much space.
For those wondering: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000-ish, or some 10^21
Fork it if you don't want to go corporate; plenty of people did that when MySQL went to Sun.
After forking it, you'll need a new name of course. I vote metasplit.
I imagine the way sharedband works is that it's a VPN endpoint. If you use VPNs (essentially creating another IP layer on top of the existing one), you *can* aggregate multiple connections and even get faster single-session transfer speeds.
Absolutely. See my post below:
http://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1406513&cid=29766837
Mod parent up!
www.sharedband.com Bonds both Up and Down stream. Layer 3 so you don't have to bother your ISP. I have seen people bond FiOSS with DSL and Cable modems. Sold directly or through your ISP if they offer the service. Reliable and very cost effective.
The best thing (technology wise) with Sharedband is the ability to utilize around 95% of each line speed, even if they're widely mismatched.
I'm far from a sales person for the product (although I do know a lot about it), but it really is quite a cool solution. Upstream packets are redirected to an "aggregation server" (like an endpoint for your VPN) and distributed across 2 or more lines based on individual line weightings - not round-robin (MLPPP fails here).
From the aggregation server the packet headers are rewriten again, changing the source address to the service IP and peer'ed to the Internet, then downstream goes follows the return route back to the aggregation server for distribution across the customer lines again.
Sharedband weights lines separately on both their upstream and downstream - targeting >95% utilization of each line's available up and down bandwidth.
For a site-to-site situation, Sharedband itself immediately provides assistance - upstream and downstream bandwidth is immediately increased (and to an large extent, reliability too). In the situtation that both sites A and B use Sharedband aggregator C (i.e. hosted by some other company), traffic will flow from A to C (being aggregated on the upstream), and straight from C to B (being aggregated on the downstream). Vice versa in the opposite direction.
Of course there's the possibility of you hosting your own aggregation server (purchasing a software license from Sharedband themselves), which would let you host the aggregator in your own datacentre.
A final (and I believe unique) feature of Sharedband is packet resequencing - on the downstream, packets are ensured to arrive in order (as recevied at the aggregator). This lowers TCP retransmission requests etc, and further improves performance against other solutions.
Then again, right tool for the right job. You need to weigh up all the pros and cons!
For those who are geeks - email your questions to support@sharedband.com - they're good guys and they know what they're talking about.
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