Need a simple but reliable program for multicasting files to 1-30 computers on a local network. The file sizes can range in size from 1-9gb each so the objective is to minimize network bandwidth. The multicast operation can specify an individual file, multiple files, or a complete folder with all subfolders.
All computers will run Windows XP, Vista, or Windows Server 2003 (32-bit).
Program Specs:
Initiation of multicast transfer starts on the multicast server. After the file/folder location and options are configured, the server announces the availability of a multicast session. Client executable is configured to listen for a session.
Multicast Server
- Text-box: Assign a session name or number to the multicast (default “S0”)
- File Picker: Browse or type local or network path for folders/files to multicast. Selected files/folders shown in a separate window.
- Text-box: specify path for folders/files to save on remote client.
- Accept connections button: announces availability of multicast session.
- Window (Scrollable list): Shows list of clients that have acknowledged the announcement and accepted a session connection to server.
- Client count (starts the transfer automatically when the specified number of clients are connect)
- Start button – starts the file transfer to all connected clients if client count is blank or less than number specified.
- Progress bar shows file transfer status.
- Cancel button - to cancel operation.
- Should allow session information to be saved and/or loaded from disk (folder location, file list, and other session outlined above).
Client
Preferably, this should be a small .exe that does not require installation (for example, can be run as an executable from the command line or through a Web link)
- Displays client IP address
- Text-box: specify session name or number for the multicast server (default “S0”)
- Progress bar shows file transfer status after initiated from Server.
Please only bid on this project if you actual have experience developing protocol level applications. Only bids which show samples of similar applications will be considered. You must provide all source code upon project completion. Need a simple but reliable program for multicasting files to 1-30 computers on a local network. The file sizes can range in size from 1-9gb each so the objective is to minimize network bandwidth. The multicast operation can specify an individual file, multiple files, or a complete folder with all subfolders.
All computers will run Windows XP, Vista, or Windows Server 2003 (32-bit).
Program Specs:
Initiation of multicast transfer starts on the multicast server. After the file/folder location and options are configured, the server announces the availability of a multicast session. Client executable is configured to listen for a session.
Multicast Server
- Text-box: Assign a session name or number to the multicast (default “S0”)
- File Picker: Browse or type local or network path for folders/files to multicast. Selected files/folders shown in a separate window.
- Text-box: specify path for folders/files to save on remote client.
- Accept connections button: announces availability of multicast session.
- Window (Scrollable list): Shows list of clients that have acknowledged the announcement and accepted a session connection to server.
- Client count (starts the transfer automatically when the specified number of clients are connect)
- Start button – starts the file transfer to all connected clients if client count is blank or less than number specified.
- Progress bar shows file transfer status.
- Cancel button - to cancel operation.
- Should allow session information to be saved and/or loaded from disk (folder location, file list, and other session outlined above).
Client
Preferably, this should be a small .exe that does not require installation (for example, can be run as an executable from the command line or through a Web link)
- Displays client IP address
- Text-box: specify session name or number for the multicast server (default “S0”)
- Progress bar shows file transfer status after initiated from Server.
Please only bid on this project if you actual have experience developing protocol level applications. Only bids which show samples of similar applications will be considered. You must provide all source code upon project completion.
We (Argo SE) can develop your application using our own reliable multicast pr(aka RMCast). We designed it to improve market data dissemination on the trading floor several years ago and, since then, used it in several consulting projects for financial institutions. The protocol is based on negative acknowledgement approach and optimized for modern switched local area networks. The protocol recovers data loss due to short network outages, sender and receiver OS buffer overruns and/or overloaded network elements. Unrecoverable data losses are reported to the application. You'll find more information about RMCast on our web site.
I have experience of implementing a multicast voice session using various MCGroups and Group switching in a real-time gaming environment.
There are a few queries that I'd like to be addressed like the environment on which you would be running this application..would it be a simple LAN and the topology as well as the type of switches and routers. Secondly, using multicast would reduce the bandwidth but the network that you are going to use it needs to be reliable else there are going to be communication overheads for reliability!
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Khurram Sultan
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