Aspera is a company specialised in providing high speed, low-latency software solutions for data transfer.
Their flagship product is FASP, a lightweight,resilient protocol implemented at Application Level that is a replacement technology for TCP-based transfers (the likes of FTP, HTTP).
The nice thing is that it actually works! FASP is used mainly in the video industry because of its focus on moving large files across WANs. Moreover, FASP does not need drivers or dedicated hardware (remember? It’s implemented at software level) and it can be used on commodity computers to obtain Gbit-like performances. Indeed the performance of FASP is independent from Latency and tolerant to Packet Loss.
FASP point-to-point transfers are, of course strongly encrypted.
Think about a hospital trying to transfer high definition images of MRIs to be archived on the Cloud for disaster compliancy… Nice.
Can you provide me some more detail about FASP,How to implement it……./I have cloud which is using TCP connection and I want to use FASP.
there are no papers available for FASP.
Is it standard like TCP/UDP.
Thank you.
Apera’s documentation is under protected access.
However you can contact them, explain your specific case and ask an account.
Keep in mind that, after a number of tests, I realized that with most public Clouds (i.e. AWS or RS) you hit the disk performance limit well before the theoretical network bandwidth.