Instart Logic Wants a Smoking-Fast Internet

摘要

Raghu Venkat was at his breaking point in 2010. After he spent months helping to fine-tune the analytics software behind Aster Data Systems, his bosses ordered him to take a two-week vacation and handed him a $1,500 prepaid debit card as a bonus for his hard work. He spent the money on a massive widescreen TV and a couple of video game systems, making his apartment the new home base for co-workers Manav Mital and Hariharan Kolam. Soon, Venkat was obsessed with games like Bioshock. He and his fellow engineers and gaming fans grew frustrated, though, when it took the game consoles what seemed like ages to download new games or update old ones. "You have Netflix, and the movie starts streaming right away," says Mital. "We started thinking about why one thing was instant and why the other one took forever."