[BlueDog]

I was at a recent Digitour, where they went into it in some detail.

The "appliance" is basically a secure file server. There is also a software component that anyone can download and use.

The software will losslessly compress the files by 50% or so and then: either send them via ethernet to the "appliance" which in turn uploads to the net when the client provides the password, or if you don't have the "appliance", will just use your computer to upload to the Net when the client provides the password.

The advantage of the "appliance" (that's starting to sound obscene ) is that it frees up your computer from the snail pace of uploading. There are two flavors of "appliace", the low end has 10base or 100base ethernet, the high end is gigabit. Prices were somthing like 2k and 4k, (I could be totally wrong, but I think that's what he said).

It does some other nice streamlining of the process, and seems very cool if you need to send huge files on a very frequent basis.