Profile Information

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Profile Information

• 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 Vistas 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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About My App

• 1. What does your app do?
• Normally Windows OSs 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 doesnt want to pay for a NxT1 or
  T3 circut.

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About My App

• 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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About My App

• 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? Were not judging based on thisjust
  curious.
• Windows Filtering Platform
• 9. What additional technology, if any, does your
  app use? (Ex web services, 3rd party software,
  etc.) Again, this isnt part of the judging
  criteriajust wondering.
• None.

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About My App

• 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 dont really help,
  but multiple DSL connections scale well up to
  about 3-4 especially when from different ISPs

Technology Cost per month Max speed available Cost per Mbps per month
DSLVerizon 30 3Mbps 10
Cable RoadRunner 60 5Mbps 12
NxT1 MegaPath 1,100 6Mbps 183
TeePipe Verizon RoadRunner 90 8Mbps 11
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AdvancedSettingsScreen

• While TeePipe can self configure for most typical
  setups, users can also take control of all
  settings
• Pick which links are combined
• Even connect multiple ISPs to a single NIC!
• Assign weights representing relative speed of
  links if you want to favor specific paths

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Dashboard

• Shows link usage stats in real time
• Shows apparent aggregate bandwidth calculated
  based on peaks during overlapped requests
• This display could/should be a Sidebar gadget,
  but I cant get it working in the latest beta 2
  yet! ?
• All stats are available via WMI so anyone can
  create a cool and visual dashboard display that
  looks much better than mine.

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In closing
TeePipe is a simple program with almost no user
interface, but it leverages new Vista technology
under the covers to let people take advantage all
the broadband capacity they have available. Why
buy one big and expensive pipe when you can have
lots of little ones? Thanks! -josh