> -----Original Message----- > From: Landon Stewart [mailto:lstew...@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
