Castanet - A system for distributing, installing and updating software and content over networks. The Castanet Gateway is an HTTP server plugin that forwards tuner requests to appropriate transmitters 3.
Conserves bandwidth and reduces channel access time after the first request.
The Publisher also transfers channels to transmitters to make the channels available to Tuners Channel updates require the transfer of only files which have been modified. List of available channels viewable using tuners and Web browsers. Primary transmitter maintains a list of channels it serves Subscription requests are handled by primary transmitter or by repeater transmitter 6. Tuners A client program running on a user's local machine.