I've known about PacketZoom for over a year now. They have a GREAT team and I'm really impressed to see how far they have come. Happy to see them on product hunt!
Hi Product Hunters! We've been busy building and refining our tech and are very proud to bring you PacketZoom Android SDK.
What we offer is a protocol- based service that can dramatically speed up content delivered to a mobile device, and also enables seamless downloads as users move between networks.
What we've seen so far is if you have a single origin server and drop in our SDK, you see a very high multiple in the download speed. If you are doing everything possible (army of performance engineers on your team, multiple CDNs strategy with a mediation layer tuned for performance, etc), then you'll see ~ 2x speedups.
We can work with any CDN that you might already have in place, so you don't have to change your server side architecture at all.
In addition to the raw speed, I mentioned seamless downloads. What I mean by this is if you start a download of content and then move between networks (wifi to LTE, 4G to 3G, or go through a deadzone and reconnect) the typical experience is that the download fails and the user has to re-request the content. With PacketZoom, the download just continues. This has proven to be extremely important in areas with spotty network conditions.
If you have any questions, ask away. It would be great if you could take either our Android or iOS SDK for a spin and give us some feed back. I'd love to hear what the Mobile devs who are Product Hunters think about what we've built.
We also have Unity3D plugins for both Android and iOS for those of you who are using Unity.
It felt like @johnpjoseph was selling me snake oil when he first told me about PacketZoom over a year ago. Their technology (SDK integration) increases the download speed of in-app content, which is increasingly important as mobile becomes richer with high res images, video, and other heavy content.
They launched on iOS and today expanded to Android. More in their blog post here.
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