START: Jayram Palamadai, Founder & CEO, Byteport: “Transfer data on any network 10x faster”

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30 petabytes of collider data.

That was Jayram Palamadai's job at CERN, where he worked as a distributed computing engineer getting collider data out to physicists. At that scale you stop thinking about files and start questioning the protocol underneath them, so he designed a different architecture.

That became Byteport.

It's built on DART, a proprietary transport protocol developed by engineers out of CERN. TCP cuts its congestion window the moment it detects packet loss and then recovers slowly; DART holds near-constant throughput instead, roughly 98 Mbps on a 100 Mbps connection whatever the latency, jitter, or loss. In the field, Byteport has hit speeds up to 1,500× faster than TCP.

It runs wherever critical infrastructure runs: on-premises, air-gapped, hybrid, cloud.

And in those places a failed transfer isn't a file that shows up late. It's a training run stalled at the data-loading step, a satellite pass that comes and goes, a drone flying without the map it was supposed to have.

Byteport runs in all of them. It holds up in intermittent connectivity, high latency, and contested RF. DART runs mission-critical networks spanning land, air, sea, and space.

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🎙️ Jay Palamadai, Founder, Byteport on Fondo START

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00:59  Byteport's faster file transfers
01:13 Moving 30 PB at CERN
01:24 Rethinking internet architecture
01:57 Launch day reflections
02:50 Driving to YC office hours
03:17 Getting into YC
03:45 The YC interview
04:35 What's next for Byteport

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