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DaCast offers peer-to-peer video streaming broadcasts

Posted on June 18, 2008

We can all watch live video broadcasts on the internet thanks to content delivery networks (CDNs), which set up strategic points online where they can send streams of videos to internet users as efficiently as possible without clogging up the entire web.But Andolis, a San Francisco startup with French roots, hopes to disrupt that business with a product called DaCast. It uses technology that can do the same thing as CDNs much more efficiently and inexpensively. Stephane Roulland, chief executive of Andolis (pictured here), said that the company is capitalizing on peer-to-peer technology to sh...

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