Swarmcast

Swarmcast is a provider of Internet television service. It is headquartered in Minneapolis and Tokyo with branch offices in Zurich, San Francisco and New York City. It employs approximately 50 people.Swarmcast the company was founded in 2001 by Justin Chapweske under the name Onion Networks. Swarmcast was originally the name of an innovative peer-to-peer software product developed by Opencola in the Java programming language. The Swarmcast software introduced an early bittorrent-like transfer protocol, with the intention to provide content creators with more control over the distribution of their product than was permitted by other P2P protocols at the time.In 2006 the company received $5 million of investment capital and in 2007 relaunched as Swarmcast to focus on Internet television. Client Major League Baseball has used its Mosaic product, which offered viewers simultaneous access to video feeds from four baseball games.