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RAIN Technology
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• Single points of faliures
They are devices that have no inherent redundancy or backup.
• Bottlenecks
They are devices that do not have enough processing power to handle the amount of traffic they receive.
These two problems hinder the reliability and performance of the network.
What is RAIN Technology?
RAIN Technology origineted at California Institute Of Technology and its purpose was to overcome the existing problems on the internet.
• A component that stores data across distributed processors and retrieves it even if some of the processors fail.
• A communications component that creates a redundant network between multiple processors and supports a single, uniform way of connecting to any of the processors.
• A computing component that automatically recovers and restarts applications if a processor fails.
Goals of RAIN Technology:
• RAIN technology was able to offer the solution by minimizing the number of nodes in the chain connecting the client and server
• By RAIN tecnology making the existing nodes more robust and independent of each other
• RAIN technology provides the novel feature of replacing a faulty node by a healthy one there by avoiding the break in information flow. In effect with the aid of RAIN connection between a client and server can be maintained despite all the existing problems.