Aquila is a Direct Connect Hub. A Direct Connect (DC) Hub allows connected clients to download and search the shared files of the other users on the hub and it allows those users to chat with eachother. This project is a research project into high performance serving of a large number of clients. The target is to serve as much users as possible with low delays and low resource usage. The nature of the DC protocol makes it an ideal candidate for this project. The traffic send by a hub rises exponentially with the number of users, this creates large amounts of traffic to send and requires special precautions to do this efficiently. I would like to point out that the user is fully responsible for the use of this software. This software is covered under the GNU Public License Version 2 (See LICENSE for the complete text) For more information regarding Aquila, please consult http://sourceforge.net/projects/aquiladch/