Podmailing: how does it work?
This page explains how Podmailing works and solves issues such as unlimited file size, asynchronous delivery and working around firewalls.
The Podmailing Network mixes two kinds of networks: Peer-To-Peer and Centralized. Our main innovation is our solution to mix both systems to benefit from the advantages of both, without suffering from their drawbacks.
- Peer-To-Peer: data moves directly between the PCs of the sender and his recipients.
- Centralized: data is relayed by our servers, using our online storage and bandwidth.
P2P connections can be very efficient and they reduce the bandwidth cost dramatically for popular files. All P2P connections between Podmailing users conform to the BitTorrent protocol. For more details on BitTorrent and Podmailing, visit this page: How to use torrents with Podmailing.
Centralized servers enable a high quality of service. They guarantee that files can always be delivered, even if the sender and the recipients are not online at the same time, or if their connections are blocked by routers or firewalls.
More details below...
Direct P2P
The large file can be copied directly between 2 PCs.
Swarming P2P
Numerous recipients can participate
in delivering the large file to each other.
Hybrid P2P
Pure Peer-To-Peer is too limited
when it comes to asynchronous delivery:
How can you receive the file if its sender is offline?
Podmailing lets you receive the file anytime,
even if the sender is offline:
And even when the sender is online,
our servers participate in delivering the large file even more rapidly:
The Podmailing infrastructure participates in delivering
the large file more rapidly, even around firewalls:
Beyond Podmailing: network interoperability
Podmailing proposes an open solution,
designed to interoperate with other networks:
