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1. Description
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Zattoo is a small start-up located in Ann Arbor, MI, USA. From the web page:
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Developed by leading researchers and software engineers from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Zattoo offers a commercial peer-to-peer network optimized for streaming video that is uniquely capable of serving the needs of consumers, broadcasters, content owners and advertisers.
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2. Duties
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I worked for Zattoo for two years. After six months in Michigan, I came back to Spain and continued in the company as a remote worker (with some sporadic trips to the US). Most of my work was done in the core network group, doing some kind of R&D + programming stuff. My primary objective was to improve everything that had something to do with networking…
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My day to day work involved things like protocols design and implementation, mostly in C and Python. I had to struggle with sockets and all the typical OS performance problems, but also with TCP/IP/RTP, congestion control, codecs and their integration with the transmission system, multicast traffic, Forward Error Correction and how to mix it with P2P, SNMP and quality monitoring. I used tools like Eclipse, subversion, SCons, Jira, Zenoss, etc., and I spent a big deal of my time with communication tools like IRC, Skype and those awful polycom phones.
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