SpeedBit-Download Accelerator

Downloading movies, while convenient, can take to long for us of the instant gratification generation.
Speedbit, based in Herzliya and Haifa, plans to roll out its new video accelerator by Apr. 19

Industry analysts confirm that download times remain the major roadblock preventing online video from catching on as quickly as music did.
SpeedBit says it has devised a solution that can dramatically accelerate video downloading over the Net—potentially opening the door to much wider use of the technology.

SpeedBit has managed to shrink the download time for a full-length feature to about 40 minutes over a 5 Megabit-per-second (Mbps) Internet connection. At the higher speeds available in some countries, that could be slashed to 20 minutes or less.
An early, free version of the product designed to improve delivery of streaming videos from YouTube (GOOG) was rolled out in March, and nearly one million copies already have been downloaded.

Conventional video delivered over the Internet essentially travels in a continuous stream from the source to the destination—that is, from the seller to the customer.
By contrast, SpeedBit uses complex algorithms to optimize available bandwidth—in effect, downloading different chunks of a video simultaneously over multiple Internet connections, rather than in a single stream.

Full story at Businessweek.com

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