BitTorrent (company)
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| Type | Private company |
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| Industry | Internet Software & Services |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Key people | Eric Klinker, CEO Bram Cohen |
| Products | Consumer Freeware Content Delivery Embedded Software |
| Employees | 20 (2009) |
| Website | www.bittorrent.com |
BitTorrent, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a privately held American company that develops transformative technology and products to continue the advancement of a more efficient and open Internet. Its popular consumer software (BitTorrent Mainline and µTorrent), which use the BitTorrent protocol, is relied upon by millions of users worldwide for fast, efficient file transfer. Today, files transferred by BitTorrent’s active global user base of over 75 million consumers constitute a significant slice of all Internet traffic. The company was founded on September 22, 2004 by Bram Cohen and Ashwin Navin. BitTorrent, Inc. also maintains the BitTorrent protocol.
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[edit] Products
The company offers popular free consumer software such as µTorrent and the original BitTorrent Mainline client. The clients use the BitTorrent protocol, which makes it easier for people to get large popular files online. Files are distributed in small pieces from peer-to-peer without the need for big data centers. Files are downloaded from many different origins in pieces and are also uploaded in pieces at the same time to other consumers. This means that the more people who are downloading a file, the more who are also concurrently uploading it to others, so availability increases as demand increases.
BitTorrent, Inc. also offers BitTorrent DNA (Delivery Network Accelerator), [1] which is a free content delivery service based on the BitTorrent protocol that brings the power of user-contributed bandwidth to traditional content publishers while leaving publishers in full control of their files.
[edit] Licensing
Additionally, BitTorrent Inc. licenses its technology and brands to corporate customers. The BitTorrent Software Development Kit (SDK) for Devices enables partners to integrate BitTorrent technology into their hardware products. [2]
[edit] Standards Work
BitTorrent Inc. also promotes development of the BitTorrent protocol through R&D and open specifications. Open source contributions are linked from http://www.bittorrent.com/opensource and protocol development discussions are hosted on http://www.bittorrent.org. BitTorrent Inc. also contributes through more broadly focused standards bodies like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) at the LEDBAT working group http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ledbat-charter.html
[edit] Partners
According to the company's website, BitTorrent Inc. has announced partnerships with many companies, including, for venture capital, Accel Partners and DCM, technology partners ESA Flash Components, NTL:Telewest, Opera Software, and device partners Buffalo Technology, D-Link, I-O Data, Marvell Semiconductors, Netgear, Planex Communications Inc., and QNAP Systems Inc.[3][4]
[edit] See also
- μTorrent, a freeware closed source BitTorrent client by BitTorrent, Inc.
- BitTorrent
- BitTorrent client
- BitTorrent DNA
[edit] References
- ^ BitTorrent DNA
- ^ BitTorrent » SDK for Devices
- ^ Partners. Bittorrent Inc.
- ^ BitTorrent Inc. Launches the BitTorrent Entertainment Network. Press release. BitTorrent Inc. February 26, 2007.
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