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- Your Name: Josh Levine
- Company Name: (none)
- Application Title: TeePipe
- Brief Summary: What RAID did for hard drives, TeePipe does for network
connections. Today many users have access to multiple, inexpensive
broadband connections like DSL, Cable, and Wifi. TeePipe uses Vista’s
new Windows Filtering Platform to transform any combination of links
into a single mega-connection for wicked fast, reliable, and cheap
surfing!
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- 1. What does your app do?
- Normally Windows OS’s can only use one Internet connection at any given
moment because there can only be one active default gateway. TeePipe
leverages the new Windows Filtering Platform API to enable Vista to
seamlessly load balance HTTP traffic among multiple internet
connections and multiple ISPs.
- 2. What type of application is it?
(ex: sidebar tool, RSS alert, etc.)
- It is a combination of a driver, a system service, a tool tray app, and
a sidebar tool.
- 3. Who is the target audience?
- Anyone who wants to access the internet at speeds faster than available
through any one broadband connection, but doesn’t want to pay for a
NxT1 or T3 circut.
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- 4. What is the target industry?
- Power Surfers.
- 5. What problem(s) does your App solve for its users?
- The price per megabit for technologies like DSL and Cable Modems are
fantastic, but these technologies have fixed maximum capacities per
link, and you are only able to use one link at any given moment.
TeePipe solves this problem by letting users mix and match any number
and combination of individual pipes to create a single virtual pipe
that is as large and as reliable as they like, without having to move
up to other technologies like NxT1s and T3s that cost much more per
megabit.
- 6. Describe a situation in which your App would be useful.
- A person has maxed out their DSL connection. They want more speed, but
they already have the fastest DSL line their carrier offers. With
TeePipe, they can order a second DSL line and get almost twice the
throughput for the same low cost per megabit.
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- 7. What system requirements are necessary to run your app?
(Ex: Windows XP, SQL Server, etc.)
- Windows Vista.
- 8. Which Windows Vista functions does your app use? We’re not judging based on this—just
curious.
- Windows Filtering Platform
- 9. What additional technology, if any, does your app use? (Ex: web
services, 3rd party software, etc.) Again, this isn’t part of the judging
criteria—just wondering.
- None.
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- 10. Does your app have an installation routine?
- Yes.
- 11. Did you document your coding process?
- No.
- 12. Is your app web-enabled?
- Yes.
- 13. If you make to to the final round, may we feature screen shots of
your app in an online Code Master Showcase?
- Absolutely!
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- Cost of Bandwidth in New York City in 2006
- Once a single connection size gets bigger than 5Mbps, the cost per Mbps
jumps 15x!
- With TeePipe, you can build fat pipes by combining a cable connection*
and one or more DSL connections without hitting the price hump.
- A fault tolerant TeePipe connection is actually much more reliable than
any of the single connections since *all* component lines must fail for
an outage to happen.
- *multiple cable connections don’t really help, but multiple DSL
connections scale well up to about 3-4 especially when from different
ISPs
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