 The Red Swoosh client is a peer to peer networking client from Akamai Technologies that downloads and sideloads video multicasts from websites that support the Red Swoosh technology.The Red Swoosh peercasting tool is a browser extension that caches data, reflecting and sharing files delivered through the "Swoosh network" or Distributed Network.Red Swoosh utilizes a proprietary, peer-to-peer (P2P) file distribution protocol, designed for bandwidth efficiency in the transfer of large media files.