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Normally I would not blog about software releases, not even about the release of Fedora Core 4 which does happen to be a very cool desktop and server solution for people who want the latest and greatest. But this one cuaght my eye for obvious reasons. This Network Traffic Smoothing Software as the Open Source Journal eloquently puts it is sponsored by Japan’s famous
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) under a contract with the National Research Grid Initiative, NAREGI, Project. It is a showcase how government sponsored organizations are increasingly aligning themselves with the idea that taxpayer’s dollars (or yen in this case) should benefit the people at large and thus they give back what they have taketh. As a taxpayer this makes me feel good (or less bad) about at least some of the goverenment spending. PSPacer is released under the GPL which allows it to be integrated seamlessly into the various Linux distro’s out there and since it is Open Source it will create a community of people and developers interested in this technology resulting in an acceleration fueling further innovation. I haven’t tried it out yet but reading the docs it looks like a very smart tool and its release could not have been timed better. In a World where communicating through time sensitive Voice over IP (VoIP) will soon outpace the traditional ways, you can never have enough tools to control the bandwidth for calls from and to your Asterisk VoIP servers. More information about PSPacer can be found on the GridMPI website.