It happened to me : transferring huge data files using TCP/IP based protocols is a pain when latency is noticeable. This is a problem that becomes more and more visible when you have computers or applications on different Clouds. Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable [...]

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 [...]