Ignorance of the global state also allows the logic for Swarmcast's implementation to be relatively small. The system also requires that no explicit feedback be provided. Linking and Data Integrity Swarmcast uses a scheme that supports globally unique names and location independence. This system is also content-centric. A Content Hash Key is simply an SHA-1 hash of the contents of the file.
Data integrity is guaranteed.
It provides an equivalence operation for files that is independent of their name. It enables integration with other CDNs like Freenet. Often, the sending side of a data transfer is the bottleneck for broadband users. The only way to deal with this problem, given the current infrastructure of the Web, is to try to minimize the number of hops between the customer and the server. Swarmcast can do this through its aggressive mesh-creation policy.